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Location | 500 Lorne St, Kamloops, British Columbia Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 50°40′43.6″N120°19′47″W / 50.678778°N 120.32972°W | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Structure type | 2 storey heritage building | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | 1927 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kamloops station is a railway station in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. It serves as the overnight stopover point for the Rocky Mountaineer train service to Jasper and Banff from Vancouver. [1]
The station was originally built for Canadian National Railway [2] The station was declared a Heritage Railway Station in 1992. [3] Via Rail trains call at the Kamloops North station, not this station. The station building was restored and was previously home to a location of The Keg. [4] As of 2021, it was planned that it would be remodelled as a local distillery and restaurant, [5] however these plans fell through due to a lack of investment. [6] It now hosts Twisted Steak steakhouse. [7] [8]
The Kamloops Heritage Railway offers special excursion steam trains at various times through the year, trains depart from the station with tickets sold from their ticket office at 5-510 Lorne Street near the station. [9]
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