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The Kettle Valley Rail Trail is a multi-use recreational rail trail located in the Okanagan-Boundary region of southern British Columbia. The trail uses a rail corridor that was originally built for the now-abandoned Kettle Valley Railway. The trail was developed during the 1990s after the Canadian Pacific Railway abandoned train service.
Train on the Kettle Valley Railway crossing trestle at Sirnach Creek, 1916 The Little Tunnel above Naramata, July 2009. The Kettle Valley Railway (reporting mark KV) [1] was a subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) that operated across southern British Columbia, west of Midway running to Rock Creek, then north to Myra Canyon, down to Penticton over to Princeton, Coalmont, Brookmere ...
The Coquihalla railway link, operated by the Kettle Valley Railway (KV), a Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) subsidiary, connected the Coquihalla Summit and Hope in southwestern British Columbia. This standard gauge trackage, which followed the Coquihalla River through the North Cascades , formed the greater part of the KV Coquihalla Subdivision.
A timber trestle crossed the river where the canyon width narrowed to 3 metres (10 ft). The opening of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) main line up the Fraser Canyon in the mid-1880s diminished the trail use basically to herding horses by 1889. After destruction by the KV construction in the mid-1910s, this trail was abandoned. [5] [6]
The Kettle Valley Steam Railway is a heritage railway near Summerland, British Columbia. The KVSR operates excursion trains over the only remaining section of the Kettle Valley Railway . This section runs from Faulder to Trout Creek , running through West Summerland and the Prairie Valley railway station .
The railway operated through the river valley from 1915 to 1973. [3] [4] Between 1979 and 1980, the railway tracks between Midway and Penticton was removed. The abandoned right-of-way would later be reused as part of the Great Trail of Canada. [3]
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The Beaverdell Range is a subrange of the Okanagan Highland in the Southern Interior of British Columbia, located between the West Kettle and Kettle Rivers, and running nearly due south from Big White Mountain, which is its highest summit, and the highest in the Okanagan Highland, and lies near the head of the Kettle.