Moody Centre
Inlet Centre is a rail station that’s hard to categorize as a proper underground “subway station” or simply a station at grade-level that is in a fully enclosed box caused by the wide highway passing above, that also crosses over the West Coast Express tracks along the same highway bridge. The station though was definitely built into the side of a hill and required some cut and cover excavating.
Daylight is visible directly at both ends of the station with two side platforms for the two-track line. The platform walls look like a subway station with always turned on lighting and white and grey tiled walls with large cinderblock-sized tiles. The platform roofs have silver panels with a lower roof over the actual tracks containing what looks like lots of ductwork.
The station has two exits, one at either end of each platform. These exits provide a pop of color along each platform. The tiles along each platform wall change to a mosaic of much smaller tiles with different greens intersecting with white for the Northside exit, and blue intersecting with white for the Southside Exit, this helps passengers who use the station use color to orient themselves and go up to the right exit.
The exits are quite similar with a single combined staircase/escalator (two escalators to the northside exit only) followed by an elevator up to the extreme end of each platform leading up to a station house at street level. The northern (really eastern as the compass directions show) end is surrounded by glass with views down the SkyTrain tracks in each direction. This leads out to the north side of Barnet Highway near the corner with Ioco Road. In the mezzanine area is Mother and Child on a Bike by Parveneh Roudgar. In the entrance plaza is Evergreen People by Alberto Cerritos.
Across Barnet Highway is the southern entrance. This entrance has an attached ancillary building that doesn’t allow views down the tracks; and contains the stations’ main connecting bus stop. It is directly at the SE corner of Barnet Highway and the Barnet Service Road. In front of the station are some large boulders with an interpretative panel explaining how they were excavated during the station’s construction and are from the last ice age.
Photos 1-45: October 13, 2022;
