Lake Louise Station, Canadian Pacific Railway

Lake Louise Station was the stop on the Canadian Pacific Railway, from which passengers could board a tramway to the Canadian Pacific Chateau Lake Louise Hotel situated on the Lake with its stunning views of the Rockies.

The CPR route from the Atlantic to the Pacific was opened in 1886, and as the CPR General Manager William van Horne said "if we can't export the scenery, we will import the tourists".

The current station was opened in 1909 and was built in log cabin frontier style as one of six mountain stations for tourists.

It is now a restaurant, but is going to open for tourist passengers again this year with the Rocky Mountaineer train.

A previous blip featured the station in Montreal from which the first train across Canada departed.