Coliseum

Coordinates: 53°34′14.6″N 113°27′30″W / 53.570722°N 113.45833°W / 53.570722; -113.45833

Edmonton LRT

Legend Gorman (future) Clareview 0min 50 Street (Highway 15) 137 Avenue D.L. MacDonald Yard Belvedere 3min CN Lines Yellowhead Trail (Highway 16) Wayne Gretzky Drive Coliseum 6min 118 Avenue (future) NAIT CN Spur End (future) Kingsway (2013) MacEwan Stadium Churchill 12min Central Bay/Enterprise Square Corona 15min Grandin/Government Centre Dudley B. Menzies Bridge North Saskatchewan River University 19min Health Sciences/Jubilee McKernan/Belgravia Belgravia Road South Campus 24min 111 Street Southbound Southgate (2010) Whitemud Drive (Highway 2) Century Park (2010) 111 Street & 23 Ave (future) Blackmud Creek (future) A. Henday Dr. (Hwy 216) (future) Ellerslie (future) South LRT (future)

Coliseum Station is a surface station on the LRT system (Route 201) in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is operated by Edmonton Transit System, and was one of the original five stations when the line opened on April 22, 1978.^[1] It is located between Belvedere Station and Stadium Station at approximately 78 Street and 118 Avenue, and is built on an overpass that travels over 118 Avenue (Alberta Avenue).

Coliseum Station serves Edmonton's Rexall Place (home of the Edmonton Oilers NHL hockey team) and Edmonton Northlands.

The station has a 124 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. The platform is just under eight meters wide, which is narrow by current Edmonton LRT design guidelines.^[2]

Although Coliseum was never a terminus of the LRT line, all trains started and ended their runs at Coliseum when the fleet of LRT rail cars was maintained at the Cromdale garage nearby. The fleet is now housed at the D.L. MacDonald Transit Yard, which was completed in December 1983.^[3]

Coliseum Station platform at night

References

See also

• Edmonton Light Rail Transit
• Edmonton Transit System