Blue River station

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Blue River
General information
LocationBlue River, BC
Canada
Coordinates 52°06′N119°18′W / 52.100°N 119.300°W / 52.100; -119.300 [1]
Platforms1 side platform
Tracks1
Construction
Structure typeSign post
Services
Preceding station VIA Rail Canada simplified.svg Via Rail Following station
Clearwater
toward Vancouver
The Canadian Valemount
toward Toronto
Former services
Preceding station Canadian National Railway Following station
Angushorn
toward Vancouver
Main Line Redsand
toward Montreal
Location
Canada British Columbia location map 2.svg
Red pog.svg
Blue River
Location within British Columbia
Canada location map 2.svg
Red pog.svg
Blue River
Blue River (Canada)
Blue River station

Blue River station is on the Canadian National Railway mainline in Blue River, British Columbia. The station is served by Via Rail's The Canadian . Blue River Via Rail Station is a flag stop (48 hours advance notice required). [2]

Station staff formerly tended a railway garden. It grew a wide variety of plants, including butternut, northern red oak, bur oak, sugar maple and common horse chestnut. By 1994 it had been razed.

Footnotes

  1. "Blue River". BC Geographical Names .
  2. "Blue River train station | VIA Rail". www.viarail.ca. Retrieved 2020-07-22.


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