International Railway of New Brunswick
The International Railway of New Brunswick was a railway company in the Canadian province of New Brunswick . It was founded on April 6, 1885, initially as the Restigouche and Victoria Colonization Railway and wanted to build a line from Campbelltown on the Intercolonial Railway to the Saint John River . Only after the restructuring in Restigouche and Victoria Railway in 1896 and in Restigouche and Western Railway in 1897 did construction begin and at the end of June 1897 the tracks were already from Campbelltown to Glencoe . However, further construction was delayed for financial reasons.
In 1903 it was reorganized as the International Railway of New Brunswick . Funding was not secured until 1907 and the line opened to Saint Leonards on the Saint John River in early 1910. On August 1, 1914, the Canadian government leased the railway company and transferred management of the state-owned Intercolonial Railway , which was also part of the Canadian Government Railways . The new operator built a track connection to the main line of the National Transcontinental Railway in St. Leonards in 1918 . After the takeover by the Canadian National Railways , the section from Campbelltown to Christopher was closed in 1919 and a new connection to the former intercolonial at Tide Head was built . The entire line was shut down in 1989 and has been dismantled.