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The Vancouver Downtown Historic Railway was a heritage electric railway line that operated from 1998 to 2011 between Granville Island and Science World (Olympic Village Station after 2009), in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It operated only on weekends and holidays, usually from May to mid October, and was aimed primarily at tourists. Two restored interurban trams were used on the line, which used a former freight railway right of way. The line was owned by the City of Vancouver. The cars were operated by volunteers from the Transit Museum Society. The car shown (1207) was privately owned. By 2018 both tram cars (1207 and 1231) have been donated and moved to the Fraser Valley Historical Railway in Cloverdale.

Service was inaugurated on July 29, 1998, and was considered to be a demonstration project for a modern downtown streetcar system that the city plans to develop. It continued to operate almost every summer through 2011, as an excursion oriented historic electric railway line. In 2010, the heritage service did not operate, with the line from west of Olympic Village used for a modern streetcar demonstration service known as the "Olympic Line" (see section below). Temporary modifications made to the overhead wire took longer than expected to undo, delaying the start of 2011 service, with the service starting on July 1 and scheduled to run mid October. The line did not operate in 2012, and service suspended indefinitely due to financial constraints with no set plans to resume operation. Furthermore, a Vancouver City Council report published in March 2014 recommended against reviving service on the heritage line. When last operational in 2011, the line ran from Granville Island to Olympic Village Station, however, Olympics related construction razed the section of line east of the Cambie Bridge.

Make/ModelDescriptionFleet sizeYear builtYear retiredNotes Built in New Westminster, British Columbia Interurban car 3 only 1207 remains 1905 1958 ex British Columbia Electric Railway St. Louis Car Company Interurban car Originally 20; 5 survive 1231 1912 1958 ex British Columbia Electric Railway
The fleet also includes an ex Brussels La Brugeoise et Nivelles PCC style streetcar, painted red and cream. The line's operator, the Transit Museum Society, also owns a large fleet of vintage buses and trolley coaches.

The proposal for a full service modern streetcar line would extend the former heritage line through Chinatown and Gastown to Waterfront Station, and eventually to Stanley Park. There would be a separate line into Yaletown with longer term potential for a number of other lines. On October 13, 2014, Emily Jackson, writing in Metro Vancouver Newspaper, reported that Friends of the Olympic Line called on Vancouver City Council to commit $5 million to incorporate a refurbished line into Vancouver's transit authority. The organization has called for the line to be extended to Main Street–Science World Station. The city has allocated $400,000 to decommission the line's former route. In a 2021 report a two line light rail network (12 km and 25 stations) using most of the old route of the heritage line as well as new routing was estimated to be in the $1.1 billion range.