Corona station (Edmonton)

Corona station is an Edmonton Light Rail Transit station in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It serves both the Capital Line and the Metro Line. It is an underground station located beneath Jasper Avenue between 107 Street and 108 Street. It is the closest station to NorQuest College.

This article is about the railway station in Canada. For the pastoral lease in Australia, see Corona Station (pastoral lease).

Corona
Edmonton LRT station
Corona features chandeliers in the station
Coordinates	53°32′27″N 113°30′21″W
Owned by	City of Edmonton
Platforms	Centre platform
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Website	Corona LRT Station
History
Opened	1983
Electrified	600 V DC[1]
Traffic
Passengers (2017) (typical weekday)	7,740 board 7,873 alight 15,613 Total[2]
Services
Preceding station Edmonton LRT Following station Bay/Enterprise Square toward Clareview Capital Line Grandin toward Century Park Bay/Enterprise Square toward NAIT Metro Line
Route map min. running time Northeast LRT to Gorman future 0 Clareview Hwy 15 (50 Street) 137 Avenue D.L. MacDonald Yard 3 Belvedere CN Lines Hwy 16 (Yellowhead Trail) Wayne Gretzky Drive 6 Coliseum 118 Avenue CN Spur End 8 Stadium Northwest LRT to St. Albert future NAIT Kingsway/Royal Alex MacEwan 12 Churchill 13 Central 15 Bay/Enterprise Square 16 Corona 18 Grandin Dudley B. Menzies Bridge over North Saskatchewan River 20 University 22 Health Sciences/Jubilee 24 McKernan/Belgravia Belgravia Road 26 S. Campus/Ft. Edmonton 111 Street southbound 29 Southgate Hwy 2 (Whitemud Drive) 33 Century Park South LRT to south city limits future

History

Corona station was opened in June 1983 along with Bay station when the LRT system was extended by 0.8 km beneath Jasper Avenue from Central station.[3] The station was named after the Corona Hotel which was located on the current site of First Edmonton Place, an office tower directly above the station.[4] The station and First Edmonton Place both opened in 1983.

Corona station was the southern terminus of the LRT line prior to the opening of Grandin station in September 1989.

Station layout

The station has a 123 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 over eight metres wide. Access to the platform is from the concourse level by stairs and escalators located at each end of the platform. Unlike other downtown stations, the concourse level at Corona is not connected to the Edmonton pedway system.[5]

Around the station

• Alberta Blue Cross
• Alberta Education
• Downtown
• First Edmonton Place
• Intact Building
• NorQuest College

References

1. "SD160 Light Rail Vehicle" (PDF). Siemens Transportation Systems, Inc. 1 August 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 October 2010. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
2. "2017 LRT Passenger Count Report" (PDF). Edmonton Transit System. March 2018. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
3. "LRT Brochure" (PDF). 15 November 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 January 2007. Retrieved 30 November 2011.
4. "Send LRT's old names down the tube". Edmonton Journal. 13 August 2008. Archived from the original on 7 November 2012. Retrieved 26 October 2010.
5. City of Edmonton (July 2011). "LRT Design Guidelines 2011" (PDF). City of Edmonton. p. 700. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 June 2012. Retrieved 30 May 2012.

External links

Media related to Corona station (ETS) at Wikimedia Commons