St. Martins Railway
The St. Martins Railway was a railway company in the Canadian province of New Brunswick . It was founded in the mid-1870s as the St. Martins and Upham Railway and built a branch line that branched off the Intercolonial Railway in Hampton and led to the coast of St. Martins . It was 46.2 kilometers long and standard gauge . The line went into operation from St. Martins to Upham in 1877 and was completed in 1880. For economic reasons, the railway was sold in the 1880s to the Central Railway of New Brunswick , which took over operations in 1887. In 1897, however, it was spun off again and now operated under the Hampton and St. Martins Railway . The name was changed again to St. Martins Railway in 1906 . Since the railway yielded little, the owners decided to sell it to the government. Together with other branch lines, the company was therefore taken over on May 20, 1918 by the Canadian Government Railways . Its successor, the Canadian National Railway , closed the line in 1940.