Tower Centre

Tower Centre in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, is an office tower and retail centre connected to the Calgary Tower. It is only three minutes on foot from the CTrain's 1 Street SW station and Centre Street station.

Tower Centre
Former Rocky Mountaineer station
A Via Rail train at the station in 1982
General information
Location131 9 Ave SW, Calgary, Alberta
Coordinates51.0441°N 114.0631°W / 51.0441; -114.0631
Owned byAspen Properties
Construction
Structure typeUnderground
Parking1,403 above ground stalls[1]
Other information
StatusDisused
Websitewww.aspenproperties.ca/tower-centre
History
Opened1967 (as Canadian Pacific Railway station)
ClosedJanuary 1990 (as Via Rail station)
Previous names
Former services
Preceding station Via Rail Following station
Banff
toward Vancouver
 Canadian Medicine Hat
toward Toronto
Preceding station Rocky Mountaineer Following station
Banff
towards Rocky Mountaineer
 First Passage to the West Terminus
Preceding station Canadian Pacific Railway Following station
Brickburn
toward Vancouver
 Main Line Ogden
toward Montreal Windsor
Turner
toward Macleod
 Macleod – Edmonton Beddington
toward Edmonton
Location
Tower Centre is located in Calgary
Tower Centre
Tower Centre
Location in Calgary
Tower Centre is located in Alberta
Tower Centre
Tower Centre
Location in Alberta
Tower Centre is located in Canada
Tower Centre
Tower Centre
Location in Canada

Former railway services

Below the office tower and retail centre are the remains of a disused inter-city railway station formerly used by Canadian Pacific Railway, Via Rail, Rocky Mountaineer and Royal Canadian Pacific passenger train services.[2] The station is on the Canadian Pacific Kansas City railway line.

The station was completed in 1967 to serve the Canadian Pacific Railway. Following Via Rail's takeover of Canadian Pacific's passenger services, it was managed by Via Rail until the company's 1990 service reductions ended regular rail services to Calgary. Afterwards, both Rocky Mountaineer and Royal Canadian Pacific used the station intermittently for several years as a boarding point for their rail tours.[3]

References
  1. "TOWER CENTRE | Calgary". Aspen Properties. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
  2. "Departure and Arrival Schedules & Information, for days on the train". Rocky Mountaineer. Archived from the original on 2011-07-15.
  3. "Old Canadian Train Stations, Western Canada, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta". www.yourrailwaypictures.com. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
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