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Pacific Central Station
Building
Architectural style	Neoclassical Revival
Location	1150 Station Street
Town	Vancouver, BC V6A 4C7
Country	Canada
Client	Canadian Northern Railway
Construction
Started	1916
Completed	1919
Design team
Architect	Pratt and Ross

Pacific Central Station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada is a railway station which acts as the western terminus of VIA Rail’s cross-country The Canadian to Toronto, and the northern terminus of Amtrak’s Cascades to Seattle. Until VIA Rail took over operations around 1979, passenger trains went further west to the Canadian Pacific Railway’s Waterfront Station in downtown Vancouver, which is now used by the SkyTrain and the West Coast Express commuter railway.

Pacific Central Station at dawn.

Pacific Central Station is adjacent to Main Street SkyTrain station. The station is wheelchair-accessible and is staffed with full VIA services.

In addition to VIA Rail and Amtrak, Pacific Central Station is also served by intercity coaches run by Pacific Coach Lines and Greyhound Canada.

Rather than stopping for an immigration inspection at the border, as happens with Toronto and Montreal-New York City trains, passengers for the Amtrak trains to Seattle pass through U.S. border preclearance facilities and airport-style X-ray machines in the station before entering a special, fenced in platform where they can board the train. This is meant to expedite border-crossing times for the train, which otherwise might be delayed hours on an already four and a half hour trip to nearby Seattle.

The Rocky Mountaineer operated from Pacific Central Station until moving to the nearby Rocky Mountaineer Station in 2005.

The building was designated a heritage railway station in 1991.^[1]