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The Hinton station is a 
Via Rail
Via Rail Canada Inc. (), operating as Via Rail or Via, is a Canadian Crown corporation that is mandated to operate intercity passenger rail service in Canada. It receives an annual subsidy from Transport Canada to offset the cost of operating ...
station in Hinton, Alberta
Hinton is a town in west-central Alberta, Canada.
It is located in Yellowhead County, northeast of Jasper and about west of Alberta's capital city, Edmonton, at the intersection of Yellowhead and Bighorn Highway
The bighorn sheep (''Ovis ...
. It is on the Canadian National Railway
The Canadian National Railway Company (french: Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States.
CN i ...
mainline and is served by Via Rail's ''The Canadian
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'' as a flag stop
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(48 hours advance notice required).
The station was opened in 1911 by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway was a historic Canadian transcontinental railway running from Fort William, Ontario (now Thunder Bay) to Prince Rupert, British Columbia, a Pacific coast port. East of Winnipeg the line continued as the National Tra ...
. In 2003 the station building was moved to its current location where it became the Northern Rocky Museum of Cultural Heritage.
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Hinton, Alberta Via Rail stations in Alberta Railway stations in Canada opened in 1911 Grand Trunk Pacific Railway stations in Alberta Canadian National Railway stations in Alberta {{Alberta-railstation-stub