Edmonton station ( French : gare d'Edmonton ; IATA : XZL) or Edmonton Train Station , is the main inter-city train station in Edmonton , Alberta, Canada, operated by Via Rail . The railway station is located approximately 5.5 kilometres northwest of Downtown Edmonton on a spur off the Canadian National Railway near the former site of the Edmonton City Centre Airport . Served by Via Rail's The Canadian , the station is unusually located on a branch off the main line, meaning that trains must either reverse into or out. The station opened in 1998 following the closure of the downtown Via Rail station which was located in the lower level of Edmonton's CN Tower .
5-420: XZL may refer to: XZL, the station code for Edmonton station , Alberta, Canada XZL, the station code for Xinzhen Road station , Zhejiang, China Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title XZL . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
10-515: Is the northwest point of a loop that trains once followed to go into downtown Edmonton. Westbound, for example, trains would divert from the mainline at East Junction (near Fort Road and 66 Street NW), head south as far as the CN passenger station, which was inside the CN Tower . The present-day Edmonton LRT parallels some of the route, and remnants of the former mainline and railyards can be seen along
15-503: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=XZL&oldid=1109818642 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Edmonton station (Via Rail) Edmonton station lies directly south of the Yellowhead Trail at 12360 121 Street NW, east of
20-554: The neighbourhood of Prince Charles . It is located on the fringe of a residential area and is relatively distant from restaurants and hotels. The closest hotels are located more than a kilometre to the south on Kingsway NW near the site of the former City Centre Airport. The station is located more than 30 kilometres north of the Edmonton International Airport in Leduc County . Historically, this
25-436: The way. The City Centre Campus of Grant MacEwan University lies on what was once CN railyards to the west of the former station. Trains would then swing north and rejoin the mainline at West Junction just north of the present station. Currently trains depart the station by heading out and going to the left westbound, or to the right eastbound. Greyhound Canada 's new bus station opened here on 30 May 2016. Greyhound operated
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