Vancouver Downtown Historic Railway
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The Vancouver Downtown Historic Railway is a historic railway that runs between Granville Island and Science World in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It only operates during weekends in the summer and is aimed at tourists. Two restored interurban streetcars are used on the line.
The line and cars are owned by the City of Vancouver, and they are restored, maintained and operated by volunteers from the Transit Museum Society.
This was done as a demonstration project for a modern downtown streetcar system that the city plans to develop. The proposal would extend the line through Chinatown and Gastown to Waterfront Station, and eventually to Stanley Park. There would be a separate line into Yaletown with longer term potential for a number of other lines.
