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About Fraser Valley Heritage Railway Society
Ride a genuine British Columbia Electric Railway interurban over original Fraser Valley line trackage in Surrey. Restored century-old cars run seasonal weekend service between recreated stations at Cloverdale and Sullivan, including the fifty-five-minute Sullivan Excursion, while the Heritage Railway Adventure adds railroad speeders and a velocipede to the mix. Volunteers keep three of four historic interurbans operational, preserving a line that was once the longest interurban railway ever built in Canada.
History
The Fraser Valley Heritage Railway Society formed in 2001 under the advisory of the City of Surrey, with a mission to acquire, restore, and operate interurban cars of the British Columbia Electric Railway — whose Fraser Valley line, opened in 1910 from New Westminster to Chilliwack, remains the longest interurban line ever constructed in Canada at 120 kilometres. The society first based itself at a reproduction of the BCER's Sullivan Station, built on the original tracks in 2001. In 2004, matching $75,000 grants from the BC Ministry of Transportation and the City of Surrey helped fund the $300,000 purchase of interurban car 1225 from the Southern California Railroad Museum, and the car came home to Canada in 2005. The society relocated to a replica Cloverdale Station depot and carbarn in 2013, launching seasonal return service between Cloverdale and Sullivan that June. After the operating agreement lapsed in 2023, a five-year agreement reached in September 2024 with Southern Railway of British Columbia and BC Hydro restored the Cloverdale–Sullivan run, and the society marked its 25th anniversary of operations in 2026 with plans to run two interurbans coupled together.
The Trains
The society's collection centers on four British Columbia Electric Railway interurban cars, three of them — cars 1225, 1231, and 1304 — fully operational as of the 2026 season, while volunteers plan restoration work on car 1207, the oldest in the fleet. Car 1225 was repatriated from the Southern California Railroad Museum in 2005, and car 1304 returned to Canada from display at the Oregon Electric Railway Museum in 2009. Because the line has no trolley wire, the cars draw power from a Cummins diesel-electric generator towed on a small flatcar. The society's Heritage Railway Adventure also puts guests aboard railroad speeders and a velocipede alongside the interurbans.
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