Front of the train station
Outside the front of the Banff Train Station
Proposed Passenger Rail Link Picking Up Steam

Proposed Passenger Rail Link Picking Up Steam

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First proposed 6 years ago the project took a big step forward last month as the 150km long envisioned train line has now entered the design phase and has had the total cost pegged at 1.5 billion dollars.

The planned route begins at the Calgary airport and includes stops in downtown Calgary, Calgary Keith, Cochrane, and Morley before making its way to Canmore and then reaching its terminus at the Banff train station. It’s thought that the service would offer 10 round trips a day from the Calgary airport to Banff and that express service from the airport to downtown Calgary would be able to piggyback onto the line and be run every 15 minutes.

The train station is being envisioned as an eco-transit hub by its main proponent Liricon Capital.

Calgary airport-downtown-Banff passenger rail link step closer to reality

Reducing congestion and environmental impacts in Banff was a motivator for her family to launch the project six years ago, said managing partner Jan Waterous A proposed hydrogen-fuelled passenger rail line linking Calgary’s airport with downtown and Banff has reached the design phase – a major step towards becoming reality, say its developers.

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