Kettle Valley Railway
The Kettle Valley Railway ( KVR for short ) was a railway line and subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway , which ran in the south of the Canadian province of British Columbia . It connected Hope to Penticton and, due to the mountainous terrain, led over many bridges and tunnels.
history
The railway line was opened in 1915, parts of it from 1961 and finally shut down in 1989.
On June 20, 2002, a 9.6 km section in Myra Canyon with several tunnels and trestle bridges made of steel and wood was declared a National Historic Site of Canada .
Todays use
Large parts of the former route were renovated around the year 2000 and turned into a common hiking and biking trail, also known as the Kettle Valley Railway Trail . The trail crosses u. a. also Coquihalla Canyon Provincial Park and Boundary Creek Provincial Park . It is also part of the Trans Canada Trail .
A historic steam museum line, the Kettle Valley Steam Railway, also operates parts of the route during the summer months .
photos
The Kettle Valley Steam Railway, now a museum train
Today, large parts of the KVR have been developed into a cycle and hiking trail (here: bridge over the Kettle River)
The Othello Tunnel in Coquihalla Canyon Provincial Park
literature
- Stefan Voelker, Raphaela Wiegers, Clemens Carle: BikeBuch USA / Canada Reise Know-How Verlag, Bielefeld, 2004. ISBN 3-89662-389-3 Description of the cycle route along the KVR, pages 450ff.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Railway Equipment and Publication Company , The Official Railway Equipment Register , June 1917, p. 826
- ^ Myra Canyon Section of the Kettle Valley Railway National Historic Site of Canada. In: Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved May 26, 2018 (English).