Interurban Car 1207

Car 1207 at Leg-in-Boot Square Station, Vancouver (6th and Moberley) Photo courtesy Dale Laird

TRAMS members will be running the car from 1300 to 1700 Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays through September, please see the schedule for more detail.

Interurban 1207 was one of three built at New Westminster to inaugurate service from Marpole to Steveston in 1905. Originally named the "Steveston", it was destined, along with three other cars, to close out the same line on Februray 28, 1958, the last remaining B. C. Electric Railway interurban route, and bringing to an end all electric rail passenger service in British Columbia until the introduction of Skytrain in 1986.

After retirement, the car was bought by two Seattle residents who stored the car at a railway museum at Snoqualmie Falls, Washington, until the car was acquired by B. C. Transit in 1989 for restoration in conjunction with the transit centennial in 1992.

The City of Vancouver has now renewed the leased of car 1207 for another five years, for operation on the Downtown Historic Railway. The car is now parked in the car barn located at Ontario Station, Ontario & 1st Ave. It continues to please the many riders, as it did almost 100 years ago, now operateing from Science World Station to Granville Island Station.

Many TRAMS souvenirs are available for sale featuring DHR interurbans.