Intercolonial Railway

The Intercolonial Railway was a state-owned railway company in the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Quebec. It was created on December 21, 1867 merger of the Nova Scotia Railway ( Route Halifax- Truro Pictou ) and the Eastern Extension of the European and North American Railway ( Route Saint John - Point du Chene ). Soon, construction began on the connection between the two networks, which took place in November 1872 with the completion of the 190- kilometer route Moncton Truro. Already on 29 December 1870, the section was opened from Moncton to Amherst. All these tracks were built in colonial track ( 1676 mm).

Another new line should the power in Rivière -du -Loup bind to the Grand Trunk Railway was built from both sides. In August 1874, the portion of Rivière -du -Loup to Saint - Flavie was opened. A few weeks later spurts the Grand Trunk their main routes of colonial track to standard gauge ( 1435 mm ) around, which meant that even the Intercolonial rebuilt their routes. The gauging was completed in 1875, the same time gave you the route from Moncton to Campbelltown. The whole new line from Moncton to Rivière -du -Loup eventually went on 26 June 1876 in operation, bringing the total length of the Intercolonial network increased to 1149 km. The continuous traffic was officially launched on 1 July 1876.

On 1 August 1879, the Intercolonial acquired the 200- kilometer section of Rivière -du -Loup- Lévis by the Grand Trunk Railway. A short branch line (11 miles) in the port and industrial city of Dalhousie was on 30 June 1884 in operation. During this time the Intercolonial also acquired a right of co for subsequent in Lévis Grand Trunk route to Montreal, so that the transfer was accounted for. Since then reversed - to date - the Ocean Express Limited from Montréal to Halifax. 1887 is the link from Oxford Junction on the main line after Stellarton Nova Scotia Railway on the former, creating a shorter connection Pictou originated. In 1890, a 274 km long branch line from New Glasgow to Sydney on Cape Breton Island. The total network now had a length of 1840 kilometers.

After the Drummond County Railway was leased with its 100 -kilometer stretch of Lévis to Sainte- Rosalie from 1 March 1898, although ended the shared use of the Grand Trunk Railway between Lévis and Montreal, however, a new shared use agreement for the section of Sainte- Rosalie Montréal - closed. The Canada Eastern Railway in 1904 was bought in 1912 and partially realigned their route to Fredericton. From 1 January 1914, the Intercolonial leased their branch line to Windsor ( Nova Scotia ) to the Dominion Atlantic Railway. On August 1, 1914 merged the various state railway companies of Canada to the Canadian Government Railways, the aufgingen later in the Canadian National Railways.

Most stretches of the former Intercolonial are still in operation, from the main routes, only the former Eastern Canada as well as the link decommissioned Oxford Junction to Stellarton. The movement has today by VIA Rail. Since the privatization of Canadian National in 1995, some sections of the Intercolonial network to local railway companies have been sold, namely the distance of Sainte- Rosalie to Campbelltown to the Chemin de fer de Matapédia et du Golfe, from there to Moncton to New Brunswick East Coast Railway track and the Truro - Sydney to the Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway. On 3 November 2008, however, the Canadian National Railway announced their intention to buy back the Chemin de fer de Matapédia et du Golfe and the New Brunswick East Coast Railway.

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