Churchill (ETS)

Churchill Edmonton LRT Station
Station statistics
Coordinates	53°32′39″N 113°29′21″W / 53.54417°N 113.48917°W / 53.54417; -113.48917Coordinates: 53°32′39″N 113°29′21″W / 53.54417°N 113.48917°W / 53.54417; -113.48917
Structure	Underground
Platforms	Centre
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	1978
Accessible
Owned by	City of Edmonton
Services
Preceding station   Edmonton Transit System   Following station Stadium toward Clareview LRT Central toward Century Park

Edmonton LRT route diagram

Legend Gorman future Clareview 0 min 50 Street (Highway 15) 137 Avenue D.L. MacDonald Yard Belvedere 3 min CN Lines Yellowhead Trail (Highway 16) Wayne Gretzky Drive (future) North LRT Coliseum 6 min (2014) NAIT 118 Avenue (2014) Kingsway CN Spur End (2014) MacEwan Stadium 8 min Churchill 12 min Central 13 min Bay/Enterprise Square 14 min Corona 15 min Grandin/Gov't Centre 16 min Dudley B. Menzies Bridge North Saskatchewan River University 19 min Health Sciences/Jubilee 20 min McKernan/Belgravia 22 min Belgravia Road South Campus 24 min 111 Street Southbound Southgate 28 min Whitemud Drive (Highway 2) Century Park 33 min 111 Street & 23 Ave Blackmud Creek A. Henday Dr. (Hwy 216) Ellerslie future South LRT future

Churchill Station was one of the five original stations along the LRT (route 201) line in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.^[1] It is located between Central Station and Stadium Station. It opened April 22, 1978.

Churchill Station is located in the downtown core beneath Churchill Square. The station serves downtown Edmonton's Arts District, with pedway connections to the Art Gallery of Alberta, Francis Winspear Centre for Music, and the Citadel Theatre. The station also serves Edmonton City Hall, the Alberta Law Court, the Edmonton City Centre shopping mall, and the Edmonton Public Library's Stanley A. Milner branch.

The station has a 129 metre long centre loading platform that can accommodate two five-car LRT trains at the same time, with one train on each side of the platform. At just under eight meters wide, the platform is narrow by current Edmonton LRT design guidelines. Access to the platform is from the concourse level by stairs and escalators located at each end of the platform. The concourse level is part of the Edmonton pedway system.^[2]

An Edmonton Transit System information centre, complete with lost and found, and the LRT system control centre are both located on the Churchill Station concourse level. At one time, windows allowed pedestrians to view the control centre, but these were removed in 2008.

In November 2006, Churchill became the first LRT station in Edmonton to have an exclusive ad campaign, with all ad space, as well as many other parts of the station, in the station being used by ads for Enmax.

Churchill is one of only six stations that have never been the terminus of the LRT system.^[3]

See also

• Edmonton Light Rail Transit
• Edmonton Transit System

References

1. ^ The other four were Central Station, Stadium Station, Coliseum Station and Belvedere Station.
2. ^ LRT Design Guidelines, Edmonton, 25 February 2005, http://www.edmonton.ca/transportation/RoadsTraffic/LRT_Design_Guidelines.pdf , See Appendix 1 for platform length for this station.
3. ^ The other five are Coliseum, Stadium, Bay/Enterprise Square, McKernan/Belgravia, and Southgate stations.