Corner Brook Railway Museum, Newfoundland, 2005

22 photos of locos and roling stock at this museum on the western coast of Newfoundland. Newfoundland had a very extensive narrow gauge (3ft 6in) system which operated from 1898. It was built before the then Dominion of Newfoundland joined the Canadian Confederation in 1949. What had been the Newfoundland Rly then became part of Canadian National. Newfoundland's premier passenger train was the 'Newfie Bullet'. It took 23 hours to cover the 549 miles from St Johns to Port aux Basques whence there was a ferry connection to Sydney, Nova Scotia. The 'Bullet' finished in 1969 after the 1965 Trans-Canada Highway enabled cars to do the journey in 12 hours. Freight traffic also declined, and the entire Newfoundland system closed in 1988

Welcome to the Corner Brook Railway Museum, Newfoundland! 29 September 2005. Newfoundland had a very extensive narrow gauge (3ft 6in) system which operated from 1898. It was built before the then Dominion of Newfoundland joined the Canadian Confederation in 1949. What had been the Newfoundland Rly then became part of Canadian National. Newfoundland's premier passenger train was the 'Newfie Bullet', properly the Newfoundland Rly's Overland Limited, subsequently renamed the Caribou by Canadian National. It took 23 hours to cover the 549 miles from St Johns to Port aux Basques whence there was a ferry connection to Sydney, Nova Scotia. The 'Bullet' finished in 1969 after the 1965 Trans-Canada Highway enabled cars to do the journey in 12 hours. The ferries also carried standard gauge wagons to Port aux Basques where their bogies were replaced with narrow gauge ones. But freight traffic declined, and the entire Newfoundland system closed in 1988.

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Welcome to the Corner Brook Railway Museum, Newfoundland! 29 September 2005. Newfoundland had a very extensive narrow gauge (3ft 6in) system which operated from 1898. It was built before the then Dominion of Newfoundland joined the Canadian Confederation in 1949. What had been the Newfoundland Rly then became part of Canadian National. Newfoundland's premier passenger train was the 'Newfie Bullet', properly the Newfoundland Rly's Overland Limited, subsequently renamed the Caribou by Canadian National. It took 23 hours to cover the 549 miles from St Johns to Port aux Basques whence there was a ferry connection to Sydney, Nova Scotia. The 'Bullet' finished in 1969 after the 1965 Trans-Canada Highway enabled cars to do the journey in 12 hours. The ferries also carried standard gauge wagons to Port aux Basques where their bogies were replaced with narrow gauge ones. But freight traffic declined, and the entire Newfoundland system closed in 1988.

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