It's 1888 and the first E&N train has just arrived in Victoria after crossing the swing span bridge over the harbour. The building in the center is the freight house while the south end of Victoria's fist station is visible on the right. The fence and front of the station (not visible) parallels Store Street.

This photo shows the interior of the first E&N station on Store Street.

The camera for this shot is positioned on Store Street looking towards the freight house with a corner of the first station barely visible to the right. Boxcars may be seen between the station and freight house while the swing bridge is located out of view behind the freight house.

Also photographed from Store Street is this portion of the fence on the north side of the first station. Boxcars are parked next to the Janion Hotel. The Janion opened as a railroad hotel with 48 bedrooms and every room lit by electricity. The proprietors offered Sunday chicken dinners for 25 cents promising in advertisements that only white cooks were employed. The hotel lacked a liquor licence hence the possible reason for its demise as a commercial enterprise less than a year after opening.

This plain block style building is the second E&N station built facing Store Street.

Here's a 3/4 view looking at the southeast corner of the second E&N station and along Store Street at the old Janion Hotel. The hotel was once used as a warehouse, an assayer's office, a cold storage facility, Pacific Beer bottling plant, offices for Lake of the Woods Milling Company, and even some E&N offices at one time.

Positioning the camera to the rear of the station shows an E&N Dayliner at the station platform lettered Canadian Pacific with red and white angled stripes livery.

When VIA Rail took over passenger service on Vancouver Island they constructed this third E&N station at Victoria in 1986. With construction of a new Johnson Street bridge envisioned the station was demolished, except for the roof, which was moved to Ogden Point as a shelter for ship passengers. With the last station gone from Victoria, and nothing will replace it as the new Johnson Street bridge will not support a railway track, only the Janion Hotel building (left) has survived in this location. At 126-years-old it is being rebuilt to provide micro-apartments.