TransLink Expo Line SkyTrain - Production Way-University - Waterfront (2019)

This is a video of the entire journey onboard TransLink's Expo Line, one of the three SkyTrain routes in Metro Vancouver. We start our journey at Production Way-University station with a Millennium Line train to Coquitlam departing before our train to Waterfront. At Lougheed Town Centre station the routes part ways, our train continues on the former Milllennium Line (now Expo Line) around to New Westminster and inbound to Waterfront, joining the original Expo Line from Surrey just before Columbia station. This video also includes the new platform at Commercial-Broadway, albeit with the wrong announcements!
We ride aboard Skytrain 449-452, a 2019-built ART Mark 3 set. Featuring a full-walkthrough of the four-car trainset at the end of the video, and view of the Waterfront tail track.

[@rosecherono9075]

29:22 "connect here for the canada line, Seabus, and west coast Express" at commercial Broadway seems legit.

[@Welwyn22]

Yeah, quite a glitch. I believe it was fixed some time after this was filmed

[@yinggan9976]

It was supposed to say
“For connections to the millennium line please exit through the doors on the right. For connection to the 99 B-Line and other buses please exit through the doors on the right”

[@jozdundar]

I don't even live in Vancity and I had to watch that part at commercial Broadway four times to believe what I was hearing lol. Glad to see I wasn't hallucinating when hearing that 😅

[@deltatrains]

Good ride. Unfortunate it was not a clear sunny day for the scenery.

[@Welwyn22]

This is what I had to make do with. Two previous attempts failed due to rain, time I could have spent recording buses instead.

[@churchillrivero1773]

salamat for filming this footage of Van

[@StevenDrumsYEEHAW]

I made a couple of videos of the station announcements on my phone, but not on TH-cam. Btw, welcome back! Plus, make a video going from King George to Waterfront again.

[@Welwyn22]

Rather difficult as I live in Calgary now, my next Vancouver trip won't be until next spring at the earliest.

[@DanielSheytoon]

awesome dude! keep up the good work! by the way since you did this will you do one from King George to Waterfront?? on a mark ll

[@Welwyn22]

That was already recorded in 2015, here's the link: th-cam.com/video/6Ew9pkZtynQ/w-d-xo.html

[@justinm.1]

Couldn’t help but notice but...the car numbers on both ends of the Mark 3’s (like 433 & 436 or 449 & 452 @0:40) are not above the red and orange lights unlike the 2016 versions 😜 was so weird to see that lol

[@MetroElfren]

I thought I heard that one point at Comm’l-Bdway.

[@deloresmackay9923]

Did you hear that ebus is expanding to Sorrento in Salmon arm I enjoyed your ebus video I figured you'd be interested in the route expansion let me know Delores

[@Welwyn22]

Yes, I did hear about it. Im hoping they'll extend through to Calgary as well as I've been impressed by their services.

[@andrewcrothers2000_]

Almost sounds like a BART train

[@Welwyn22]

They are built by the same manufacturer. They likely have similar traction motors.

[@andrewcrothers2000_]

@@Welwyn22 I see

[@naturallyherb]

Will you upload in > 1080p in the future?

[@Welwyn22]

1080p has been included on a recent video (Kettle Valley Railway), but it takes up considerably more space on my HDD and takes even longer to process, so the short answer is no. The longer answer is maybe, when a new PC is acquired then 1080p will be an option.
The Kettle Railway visit video was recorded in 1080p by mistake, so I processed it in that quality to compare it to 720p.

[@souadghomari3081]

29:27 there is a Mark III train rarely sees

[@mutsortima174]

29:21 That must have been a programming error--that announcement should only be heard when approaching Waterfront station, whereas westbound trains approaching Commercial-Broadway always say "(Please stand clear of the doors.) For connections to the Millennium Line, please exit through the doors on the right. For connections to the 99 B-Line and other buses, please exit through the doors on the left."

[@StevenDrumsYEEHAW]

That sometimes happens.

[@yinggan9976]

So they made a tunnel because the buildings are in the way

[@Welwyn22]

At what location?

[@yinggan9976]

Near stadium chinatown

[@Welwyn22]

That tunnel is a hundred years old, it was built by CP Rail to access the roundhouse in Yaletown (now preserved).
SkyTrain was built through that tunnel after CP abandoned it in the 1980s.

[@michellariviere2063]

do it on a Mark 1 train

[@Welwyn22]

Already have!
th-cam.com/video/0yf0a8phI48/w-d-xo.html

[@tlplayz_ytc8501]

Its still noisy..