Barnes Creek

Barnes Creek is an unincorporated Post Office settlement in south central British Columbia, within the Thompson-Nicola Regional District.

It is located on the east bank of the Thompson River north of Ashcroft. The former Post Office settlement of Mahard was incorporated into Barnes Creek Post Office in 1984.

Commerce
Ashcroft Terminals, a sizeable intermodal transport facility, is located in Barnes Creek. In Mahard there is a facility belonging to Koppers Chemical.

Road
Barnes Creek is connected to Ashcroft and to BC Highway 97C via Evans Road.

Rail
Barnes Creek is a junction point between BC Rail's primary east-west trunk line, the Inter-Dominion Line running from Vancouver to Jasper, Alberta, Canada and the Thompson Subdivision of CP Rail's transcontinental mainline.

Barnes Creek Station sees only freight service, whereas Mahard has both freight and passenger service, the latter in the form of three daily Local trains each way between Vancouver and Kamloops (Trains 801/802, 803/804, 805/806).