The TransContinental Heritage Restaurant & Railway Lounge recently opened in Vancouver's old Canadian Pacific Railway station on the waterfront.
 
The restaurant occupies 8,500 square foot, with 307 seats in the southeast quadrant of the old station.
 

The waiting room in Canadian Pacific Railway's Vancouver Station now named Waterfront Station - Date? Photographer?

It is expected to reflect the romance, adventure, and luxury associated with the golden age of rail travel.
 
The restaruant fills what was originally the ladies waiting room and it was used, more or less, as a waiting room up until passenger trains stopped arriving at the station in 1976.
 
After that, the area was boarded up and messily converted into a rabbits' warren of office spaces.
 
The restaurant's design plans gutted everything back to a single open space in order to create a multi-level restaurant consisting of a dining room and bar located on the main floor, another 57 seat eating area perched above it on a second floor mezzanine, with massive windows that stretch floor to ceiling and look out over the cityscape.
 
The windows open onto an outdoor patio that will seat 150 in summertime.
 
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