Chapter 4 - Freight Terminals
A major function of a transportation system is the timely delivery of the necessities of life into urban areas. As rail service to communities grows their platforms can become quite heavily loaded with a combination of passenger and freight services, with little room for additional platforms without avoiding serious urban dislocation. The solution is to build dedicated freight terminals in another part of the cities. An example is the Calgary Goods & Food Terminal.
- Calgary Goods & Food Terminal
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Here is a list of our current terminals.
Calgary Goods & Food Terminal
Banff Food & Goods Terminal
Edmonton Food & Goods Terminal
Saskatoon Food & Goods Terminal
The Lethbridge terminal was built as an extension to the existing station.
Due to the expanding nature of freight services into the cities, it has been decided to go to a standard nomenclature for these terminals: [City Name] Freight Terminal, where it is prohibitive to add these dedicated platforms as extensions to local platforms.
First, the free standing terminals will be renamed accordingly. Then terminals will be established in the following order: Winnipeg, Vancouver, Abbotsford, Victoria, Prince Rupert, Regina, Kamloops, Jasper, Whitehorse, Dawson. The last two are on the WPY narrow gauge line so a Freight Transfer Facility will have to be built near Jasper in order to transfer freight from the standard gauge services over to the narrow gauge services.
The existing terminals will be upgraded to handle new vehicle deliveries. New Vehicle Facilities will be included in the design of the new platforms.
Once these platforms have been completed, existing trains will be scheduled accordingly and new trains added where required.
It is anticipated that this project will have to be rolled out over a period of years in order to be able to include focus on other sectors of the network as required.
