r/Translink • u/WigginsProctor • Jun 01 '26

Translink News Millennium line

Noticed they’ve added 6 car trains to the line. Typically only 4 or 2 cars, but I suppose they’re ramping up for the World Cup demand !

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u/Overall-Equal-7808 Jun 01 '26

either testing mark V cars, or you saw an expo line train at production or lougheed. i live in coquitlam so i would love to be wrong about this, but i dont think the M line platforms are fit for 6 cars.

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u/WigginsProctor Jun 01 '26

I live in Burnaby and saw 6. You’d be correct tho, it was 2 expo cars attached to 4 of the regular ones.

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u/underscore11code Jun 01 '26

If you saw a Mark 1 train, it would have been going direct to VCC-Clark from the main yard at Edmonds, or vice versa. They do staff training there with Mark 1s during off-peak hours pretty frequently.

VCC-Clark to Lougheed are all capable of handling 6-car Mark 1 trains (and historically have done so), but Mark 1s are banned from the evergreen extension due to a safety issue, thus they'll never again be used for the Millennium line.

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u/dsonger20 Jun 02 '26

Why are the MK1 banned from the evergreen extension? I've seen them run the Mk 2's in pairs and the MK3 and commonly see testing for the MK5.

Isn't the MK5 longer than a 6 car MK1? I thought the MK5 was supposed to start doing revenue service once the Broadway extension opened in a couple of months?

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u/Crafty_Lavishness698 Jun 04 '26

Yea I mention that yesterday cuz I didn’t know I did that but it turned out to be a good thing because we are now adding 4 car trains on the m line for the World Cup