New Brunswick Railway
The New Brunswick Railway ( NBR) is a former railway company in New Brunswick ( Canada ), headquartered in Woodstock. In 1870, the landowner Alexander Gibson, the New Brunswick Land and Railway Company with the aim of the provincial capital Fredericton to connect with the city, in the north-west of the provincial town of Edmundston and so to be able to remove the wood income of his lands. First, he decided to run the course in Cape gauge ( 1067 mm).
Construction began in Fredericton and on 1 May 1873, first section was opened to Woodstock, where connection was on the route of the New Brunswick and Canada Railway ( NBCR ). The more distance in the direction Edmunston branched off in Newburg, reaching on June 9, 1875 Florenceville (New Brunswick ). In December 1877 Grand Falls was reached and on October 1 in 1878 was the total distance to Edmundston be opened to traffic.
In addition to already opened in 1875 a distance of Tobique the state border to Maine. From there the route went first to Fort Fairfield and was operated by the Aroostook River Railroad, which was leased from January 12, 1878 by the NBR. The section of Tobique to Aroostook went on in the 1877 opened section of the main line. In October 1880, the entire country of the NBR went over to the New Brunswick Land and Lumber Company, then in 1881 the company was restructured as New Brunswick Railway Company.
In June 1881 was the re-gauging of the network to standard gauge, as well as the subsequent in Woodstock, Edmundston and Fredericton tracks had that gauge. On July 1, 1882 The NBR eventually leased the NBCR, making the network connection was to the Atlantic coast and opened up the entire western border of the province of New Brunswick. A year later, on July 1, 1883 was followed by the St. John and Maine Railway, which had been spun off from the European and North American Railway and was leased for 997 years. 1885 bought the NBR the Fredericton Railway with their range of Fredericton Junction to Fredericton, which was an important cross- connection between the two main lines of NBR.
On July 1, 1890 ended the history of the New Brunswick Railway, as the Canadian Pacific Railway took over the company on that day. Of the total power of the former NBR existed in 1999, only the short section Cyr Junction Grand Falls of the actual NBR trunk route and the former St. John and Maine Railway from St. John to Vanceboro and the former NBCR distance of McAdam to St. Stephen and Milltown.
The section of Edmundston after Cyr Junction had already been shut down in the 1930s, as the National Transcontinental Railway had built a parallel route. The routes of the former NBR went 1988 on the Canadian Atlantic Railway ( CAR), which closed down almost the entire network from 1988. The remaining section at Grand Falls is today operated by the Canadian National Railway, the other lines are today. Possession was founded in 1994 New Brunswick Southern Railway