Route
The Expo Line travels underground from Waterfront to Stadium-Chinatown Stations, mainly through the Dunsmuir Tunnel, a tunnel previously used by the Canadian Pacific Railway to connect its mainline tracks along Burrard Inlet to its former yard on False Creek.
The line is elevated from Stadium-Chinatown to New Westminster, except for short at-grade sections between Nanaimo and Joyce Stations in East Vancouver, and around the SkyTrain yards at Edmonds Station in Burnaby.
The line travels underground for a short stretch between New Westminster and Columbia. Just east of Columbia Station is a junction with the newer Millennium Line. The line then crosses the Fraser River to Surrey via the Skybridge, and is elevated for the rest of its run to its terminus at King George. The track continues for about a block east of the King George station; this spur is currently used for parking unused cars, but is designed to hook up to any future eastern expansion of the Expo Line.
From just west of Nanaimo Station all the way to New Westminster Station, the Expo Line follows BC Electric's former Central Park Line, which carried interurbans between Vancouver and New Westminster from 1890 to the early 1950s.
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