Central Railway of New Brunswick

The Central Railway of New Brunswick was a railway company in the Canadian province of New Brunswick . It was founded in 1871 to connect the Saint John - Moncton line of the Intercolonial Railway to the provincial capital, Fredericton . The route should go north around Grand Lake . The line connected to the Intercolonial in Norton and ran north from there. In 1888 Chipman was reached on the northern edge of Grand Lake, but the construction work was then initially stopped. The length of the standard-gauge line was 72 kilometers up to then.

In the mid-1880s, the Central Railway acquired the St. Martins and Upham Railway , which had built a branch line from the Intercolonial to the coast. Since the two lines had no connection with each other except for the Intercolonial and a separate connecting line did not appear profitable, the line was sold again in 1897 and it became independent again as the Hampton and St. Martins Railway .

In 1903 the New Brunswick Coal and Railway (NBCR) built the extension of the line beyond Chipman, but only got as far as Minto . In the same year, the NBCR bought the Central Railway and continued to operate the Norton – Minto line. In 1914, the Canadian Pacific Railway leased the now closed line.

literature

• Charles Wassermann: Canadian Pacific - The great railroad. Herbig, Munich and Berlin 1979. ISBN 3776609354