Fort Langley CN Station

A short timeline

• 1915: The station is built for the Canadian Northern Railway, to serve a farming valley that was filling up with settlers. It is a “3rd Class Type” design, which the Society says is one of the few left in western Canada.
• 1918: Canadian Northern is absorbed into the Canadian National Railway and the station is expanded.
• 1980: Passenger service ends.
• 1983: Langley Heritage Society volunteers move the station about 240 metres to its present spot. A two-year restoration follows.
• 1984: It is declared a Municipal Heritage Site.
• 1997: The Society buys a 1947 railway car, now named the E. & E. Taylor.
• 2001: The restoration wins a B.C. Heritage Society Award of Honour.
• 2004: CN donates a length of track, and a velocipede (a hand-pumped rail cart) on loan from the B.C. Farm Machinery and Agricultural Museum goes in front of the station.
• 2015: A centennial party is held on the station grounds, with a jazz band and the Langley Camera Club’s railway photos, as the Langley Advance Times reported.

What’s inside

The Society lists a waiting room, a telegraph office and a freight room. A trunk that belonged to Lois Bowling, the first British war bride to arrive in Langley after the Second World War, sits in the waiting room. The rail car holds a children’s train table and reading area and a kids’ telegraph station. A wooden caboose from the 1920s beside the station houses the Glen Valley model railway.

The garden out front is planted in the style of the garden competitions that station master Richard Simpson and his wife Mary entered between 1918 and 1929; the Society says Mary grew 37 varieties of perennials. The same page notes that Richard earned $45 a month in 1918 and worked 60 hours a week.

Visiting

The station is a stop on the Fort Langley walking tour, a couple of minutes from the village centre and the Fort-to-Fort riverside route (see the Fort-to-Fort Trail). The Society is volunteer-run, and its page says a $20 donation is appreciated. Its recent open house included a scavenger hunt and a craft where children sealed a letter from the train agent with a wax stamp. The page also links its 2026 to 2027 speaker series.

More heritage in the area: Langley Heritage Society, heritage sites in Langley, the Fort Langley village guide and the Fort Langley National Historic Site.

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Last checked October 24, 2026. Something out of date? Tell us.