Churchill station is an

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station in

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. It serves both the

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and the

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. It is an underground station located beneath Churchill Square and is a part of the

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system. An at-grade surface platform is currently under construction above the existing station at Rue Hull (99 Street) and 102 Avenue, and was scheduled to open in 2020; however, as of December 2022 the Valley Line had not opened and no definite opening date had been announced. The new platform will facilitate transfers between the Metro and Capital lines below grade, and the Valley Line and Festival Line at the surface level. By 2040 Churchill LRT Station is expected to be one of the major hubs of the Edmonton LRT system, with four out of the five lines currently approved by the City passing through the station.

History

Churchill station opened on April 22, 1978 when the LRT system first began operations. A tragedy occurred in August 1988 when Cathy Greeve, a 29-year-old mother of two, was found strangled to death in one of the washrooms at the station In November 2006, Churchill became the first LRT station in Edmonton to have an exclusive advertisement campaign, with all ad space, as well as many other parts of the station, being used for advertisements for

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Station layout

The station has a centre loading platform that can accommodate two five-car LRT trains at the same time, with one train on each side of the platform. At just under , the platform is narrow by current Edmonton LRT design guidelines. Access to the platform is from the concourse level by stairs and escalators located at each end of the platform. The concourse level is part of the

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system. The LRT system control centre is located on the Churchill Station concourse level. The

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Customer Services centre, complete with lost and found, was also located in the station before moving to

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in February 2013, then to the

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in early 2017. At one time, windows allowed pedestrians to view the control centre, but these were removed in 2008.

Lines

ChurchillStationValleyLinePlatforms August2022

The station serves as a transfer point for the

, and future Valley Line.

Public art

Churchill station includes two pieces of public art. The first, "Ridden Down" is an abstract sculpture using welded steel that was installed in 1996. The second is a mural entitled "New Year's Eve".

Around the station

* Churchill Square *

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Citadel Theatre The Citadel Theatre is the major venue for theatre arts in the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, located in the city's downtown core on Churchill Square. It is the third largest regional theatre in Canada. History It began in a former Salvati ...

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Edmonton City Centre Edmonton City Centre is a shopping mall in the downtown core of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, across the street (west) from Churchill Square. History In 1974, the City Centre Place office tower (Oxford Tower) was completed within the larger Edmon ...

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* Oxford Tower * Provincial Court of Alberta *

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* TD Tower * Ukrainian Canadian Archives & Museum of Alberta

References

{{Churchill Square Capital Line Edmonton Light Rail Transit stations located underground Metro Line Railway stations in Canada opened in 1978 Valley Line (Edmonton)