New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island Railway
The New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island Railway was a government-funded railroad company in the Canadian province of New Brunswick . It was founded in 1873 as part of the Treaty of Accession of Prince Edward Island to the Federation of Canada. By September 9, 1886, the company built a 56.8-kilometer standard-gauge railway line, which branched off the main line of the Intercolonial Railway in Sackville and led to Cape Tormentine . From there there was a ferry to Prince Edward Island. Together with other railway companies, the NB & PEI went on August 1, 1914 in the Canadian Government Railways . From 1917 the trains could travel on a train ferry to Borden-Carleton on the island. The Canadian National Railway , which emerged from the Canadian Government Railways, closed the line at the end of 1989 and dismantled it until 1993.