Curious about Langley’s SkyTrain construction?
Published 5:00 am Monday, April 6, 2026
Construction crews are building the foundations for the elevated guideway in Langley near Production Way and Fraser Highway for the 16-kilometre Surrey Langley SkyTrain.
Driven piles are being built into the ground to support the future guideway (pillars that support the elevated train tracks).
The guideways feature massive formed pieces of concrete which are created at a site in Campbell Heights on Surrey/Langley border and then transported via flatbed truck to the sites along the route to be hoisted into position by launching gantries.
Once the row of segments are in alignment, crews use specialized construction glue to connect them, then wire the span tightly together, according to the website about the project. The gantry then slides forward and uses the previously constructed span as support for building the next section of guideway.
The four gantries being used were given names based on where they would be used the most.
The Langley Launcher will begin installing guideway segments from the 184 Street Station through to the Langley City Centre Station, the last stop on the line.
This gantry has the biggest workload and will be lifting roughly 1,350 elevated guideway segments into place by the time the SkyTrain extension is done in 2029.
The other gantries were dubbed the Fleetwood Flyer, the Surrey Sprinter, and the Clayton Clipper.