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Ontario Northland Railway operates a passenger service between Cochrane and Moosonee making use of a fleet with heritage value. Via Rail Canada operates equipment dating back as far as 1947 [ 4 ] on all its routes, notably featuring Park cars built by Canadian Pacific Railway on The Canadian , The Ocean , the Jasper-Prince Rupert train , and ...
This is a list of railway stations in Canada which have been designated under the Heritage Railway Stations Protection Act. The names given for stations are taken from the Directory of Designated Heritage Railway Stations maintained by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada , [ 2 ] and may not be the same as those used by particular ...
New Somerset and Dorset Railway; North Dorset Railway; P. Purbeck Mineral and Mining Museum; S. Swanage Railway
Stourpaine & Durweston Halt was a railway station in the English county of Dorset. It was located between Shillingstone and Blandford Forum on the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway. The station consisted of a small concrete platform and shelter.
This list of heritage railways includes heritage railways sorted by country, state, or region. A heritage railway is a preserved or tourist railroad which is run as a tourist attraction , is usually but not always run by volunteers, and often seeks to re-create railway scenes of the past.
The Furzebrook Railway, also known as the Pike Brothers' Tramway, was a narrow gauge industrial railway on the Isle of Purbeck in the English county of Dorset. It was built by the Pike Brothers , to take Purbeck Ball Clay from their clay pits near Furzebrook and West Creech to a wharf at Ridge on the River Frome .
The Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway (S&DJR) 7F 2-8-0 is a class of steam locomotive designed for hauling heavy coal and goods trains. Eleven were built in two batches in 1914 and 1925, and were used until withdrawal between 1959 and 1964. Two are preserved.
Finally, new lines across northern Ontario allowed direct rail shipment from west to east, lowering the value of the lakers as a method of crossing this gap. Further, the Great Depression had an enormous effect on the price of wheat, the line's primary cargo. In 1928 wheat sold for $1.03 a bushel; this dropped to 47 cents in 1930, and 29 cents ...