Edmonds Station
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Edmonds Station is located on an at-grade portion of the Expo Line, a part of Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

, British Columbia
British Columbia
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's SkyTrain
SkyTrain (Vancouver)
SkyTrain is a light rapid transit system in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. SkyTrain has of track and uses fully automated trains on grade-separated tracks, running mostly on elevated guideways, which helps SkyTrain to hold consistently high on-time reliability...

 rapid transit
Rapid transit
A rapid transit, underground, subway, elevated railway, metro or metropolitan railway system is an electric passenger railway in an urban area with a high capacity and frequency, and grade separation from other traffic. Rapid transit systems are typically located either in underground tunnels or on...

 system. The station itself is in southern Burnaby. There are several highrises adjacent to the station as well as plans for more transit-oriented development
Transit-oriented development
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 nearby.

The station is immediately (130 m) southwest of the intersection of Griffiths Drive and 18th Avenue, near Edmonds Street, a short walk (700 m) south of Kingsway
Kingsway (Vancouver)
Kingsway is a major road that crosses through the Canadian cities of Vancouver and Burnaby, British Columbia. Originally called Westminster Road, it was renamed Kingsway in 1913....

. It was built in 1985 as part of the original Expo Line. It provides services to a number of TransLink bus routes serving Burnaby and New Westminster.

This station serves the City in the Park high-rise development.

SkyTrain's maintenance & storage facility serving both Expo and Millennium lines is one block east of this station, linked to and from the main guideway by multiple switch tracks. Edmonds Station serves as a temporary terminus for SkyTrain when trains are taken out of service during revenue hours.

Bus service

Bus bay assignments;
1 - Unloading
2 - 106 Metrotown Station
3 - 129 Metrotown Station
4 - 106 New Westminster Station
5 - 112 Lougheed Station, 112 New Westminster Station
6 - 116 Metrotown Station
7 - C5 Royal Oak Station, C7 Metrotown Station
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