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The former Kelowna train station is now a pub / restaurant. The Old Train Station Public House is the former CNR railway station building. It was built in approximately 1926. It is immediately recognizable as a former railway station. The railway was relatively late in coming to Kelowna. Before the railway everything came by boat or on bad roads to Vernon. This new rail link was not only an economic stimulant to Kelowna’s industries, but it also caused a shift of Kelowna’s industrial district north and east, away from the waterfront where lake transportation had sited it, to a new center in the North end.
At one time there were separate waiting rooms in the station for men and women and it was common for big crowds to gather at the station to send off or welcome home soldiers, sports teams, and other local heroes.
Highway developments - especially the completion of the Rogers Pass section of the Trans-Canada Highway in 1956, the Hope – Princeton Highway in 1951, and the Okanagan Lake Bridge in 1958 – opened the Okanagan to easy road access. As elsewhere in Canada travelers abandoned the trains for their automobiles. As a consequence, in 1967 the CNR ceased passenger service on its Kelowna – Kamloops line. Passenger service ended, but the station continued to function as its freight and express depot for many years after that.
It was designated a historic site under the Federal Heritage Railway Station Protection Act in 1991. It has heritage value as a central facility in the transportation history of Kelowna, representing the final stage in the transformation of Kelowna’s economy from water-based to land-based access.
An extensive amount of renovations were put into this project with the objective to preserve and enhance the Heritage Train Stationthe and its site and to create a unique point in the Downtown North Neighbourhood.
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The former Kelowna train station is now a pub / restaurant. The Old Train Station Public House is the former CNR railway station building. It was built in approximately 1926. It is immediately recognizable as a former railway station. The railway was relatively late in coming to Kelowna. Before the railway everything came by boat or on bad roads to Vernon. This new rail link was not only an economic stimulant to Kelowna’s industries, but it also caused a shift of Kelowna’s industrial district north and east, away from the waterfront where lake transportation had sited it, to a new center in the North end.
At one time there were separate waiting rooms in the station for men and women and it was common for big crowds to gather at the station to send off or welcome home soldiers, sports teams, and other local heroes.
Highway developments - especially the completion of the Rogers Pass section of the Trans-Canada Highway in 1956, the Hope – Princeton Highway in 1951, and the Okanagan Lake Bridge in 1958 – opened the Okanagan to easy road access. As elsewhere in Canada travelers abandoned the trains for their automobiles. As a consequence, in 1967 the CNR ceased passenger service on its Kelowna – Kamloops line. Passenger service ended, but the station continued to function as its freight and express depot for many years after that.
It was designated a historic site under the Federal Heritage Railway Station Protection Act in 1991. It has heritage value as a central facility in the transportation history of Kelowna, representing the final stage in the transformation of Kelowna’s economy from water-based to land-based access.
An extensive amount of renovations were put into this project with the objective to preserve and enhance the Heritage Train Stationthe and its site and to create a unique point in the Downtown North Neighbourhood.