Taking the train from Cloverdale to Langley

Yes, there used to be a passenger train that stopped in Cloverdale to pick up passengers and then continued to Langley.

I never rode it. A little before my time.

I do remember trains stopping in Cloverdale while I was growing up. Mostly to unload grain at the Co-op on Highway 10 near 176th Street. It was because of the trains stopping there that an overpass was built in the early seventies to keep traffic moving on 176th Street.

Before Cloverdale had a movie theatre my father used to take the train from Cloverdale to Langley to go to the movies. The problem was by the time the movie was finished, there was no return train going back to Cloverdale. This was before bus service came to the area. And before every household had multiple cars. So they boarded the train in Cloverdale, got off in Langley, watched the movie, and then walked home. Yes three miles.

Every now and then someone makes a bid to bring train service back to the Fraser Valley. There's the West Coast Express on the other side of the river from Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows going into Vancouver and back again. Trouble is only on weekdays and only during rush hour. Four trains go to Vancouver, then wait there till early afternoon, and then head back again, every half hour or so. I've never ridden those trains so I can't say their schedule.

Would it be so hard to bring passenger rail service back to Surrey and Langley and points east? The train tracks are already there. I know I'd ride that train.