Barlow/Max Bell station

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Barlow/Max Bell
CTrain station
BarlowMax Bell (C-Train) 2.jpg
General information
Location2022 Memorial Drive SE
Coordinates 51°02′44″N114°00′25″W / 51.04556°N 114.00694°W / 51.04556; -114.00694
Owned by Calgary Transit
PlatformsCenter-loading platform
Connections27 Willowglen
33 Vista Heights/Rundle
127 Maryvale
Construction
Structure typeAt-grade
AccessibleYes
History
Opened1985
Rebuilt2014
Services
Preceding station CTrain Following station
Zoo
toward 69 Street
Blue Line Franklin
toward Saddletowne

Barlow/Max Bell station is a CTrain light rail station in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It serves the Northeast Line (Route 202). It opened on April 27, 1985, as part of the original Northeast line.

The station is located in the median of Memorial Drive Southeast, near the intersection with 19 Street Northeast. The station is 3.9 km from the City Hall Interlocking.

The station serves areas located along Barlow Trail, such as Mayland with a 50 space parking lot available for commuters and near the Max Bell Centre arena.

The station's centre-loading (island) platform is accessed via ramps from a pedestrian tunnel under Memorial Drive. Barlow/Max Bell and Zoo are the only stations in the system that are constructed this way.

As part of Calgary Transit's plan to operate 4-car trains by the end of 2014, all 3-car platforms were extended, and Barlow/Max Bell station also received new furnishings in addition to a platform extension. Construction took place in 2014. [1]

In 2005, the station registered an average transit of 1,600 boardings per weekday. [2]

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References

  1. "N.E. LRT platform extensions". City of Calgary. 2013. Archived from the original on January 19, 2013.
  2. Calgary Transit (2005). "LRT Station Ridership". Archived from the original on June 8, 2007.