22 May 2009
Call to Upgrade Train Station
Courtenay Vancouver Island British Columbia - The
standard of Courtenay train station should be improved to reflect its importance, says the city's heritage advisory commission.
The organization wants the city council to use its influence and contacts to have improvements made to the heritage structure
"that would best reflect the City of Courtenay at this gateway destination".
It is suggesting that City staff should call other Island communities that have well maintained train stations - such as Qualicum
Beach - to see how their improvements had been funded.
The station building is the northern terminus of the Victoria-Courtenay E&N line.
But some people regard it as the real end of the Trans-Canada railroad from Halifax, Nova Scotia.
That's because the ferries that cross from the mainland were once part of the railway operation, and the northern arm of the Island
rail link was a later extension of the original line between Esquimalt and Nanaimo.
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