Talk:Marpole Loop

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Opening date[edit]

The station existed as a CP passenger stop prior to the 1905 takeover by BCER. However, it is misleading for the page to define the loop as the station. The 17 Oak, the only streetcar route that terminated near the station, commenced service in 1913. I am unfamiliar with any documentation that provides the date/s of the installation of the loop, or of the track connection with the interurban line, which appear on much later maps. Photographic evidence indicates that streetcar tracks were immediately beside the station as early as 1921. Assumedly, they followed the half circle driveway that seems to have existed at this time. To speculate, the terminus may equally have formerly been a short section of double track.

The origin of the term "Marpole Loop" is unclear. The earliest reference I've seen is the early 1970s, but I suspect it was in the vernacular well before this. It possibly evolved soon after the 1958 closure of the station. By that time, it was a trolley bus loop for two routes, and the terminus for several diesel bus routes, but BCER (or later Hydro) just called the location Marpole. Prior to 1916, the area was known as Eburne, north Eburne or Eburne Station, which should also be mentioned whenever this page receives a complete redraft.

Perhaps a contributor with access to the Vancouver Sun/Province online archives, and/or conversant with the Vancouver archives hardcopy records, can shed more light on the above questions.DMBanks1 (talk) 17:52, 13 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]