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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 ...
Coquihalla Lakes Road largely follows the KV rail bed to Mile 18.7, as does the Trans Mountain Pipeline private road to Mile 19.6. At this point, the road leaves the KV rail bed, which is impassable and dangerous, but visible in places on the hillside above. [41] 19.7: Tunnel #1: 60-metre (196 ft) timber lined.
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 Spokane and British Columbia Railway (reporting mark S&BC), originally the Republic and Kettle Valley Railway, was a short-lived standard-gauge railway based out of Republic, Washington, United States. The S&BC operated between Republic, Grand Forks, British Columbia, and Lynch Creek, British Columbia. The line was locally known as the "Hot ...
Railroad Grade Road, a five-mile long paved road/trail; a former section of the old East Tennessee and Western North Carolina line west of Roan Mountain Shelby Farms Greenline , a 6.6 mile trail using the previous CSX Rail right-of-way in Shelby County ; an additional 7 miles are planned.
Mobile and Ohio Railroad: Kentucky and Tennessee Railroad: 1902 1904 Kentucky and Tennessee Railway: Kentucky Union Railway: L&N: 1854 1894 Lexington and Eastern Railway: Kentucky Valley Railroad: IC: 1905 1913 Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad: Kentucky and Virginia Railroad: L&N: 1915 1915 Louisville and Nashville Railroad: Kentucky ...
Brisbane Valley Rail Trail: Queensland: 161 km (100 mi) 70 km (43 mi) west of Brisbane [24] Murray to the Mountains Rail Trail: Victoria: 116 km (72 mi) 250 km (160 mi) northeast of Melbourne [25] East Gippsland Rail Trail: Victoria: 94 km (58 mi) 280 km (170 mi) east of Melbourne [26] Kilkivan - Kingaroy Rail Trail: Queensland: 89 km (55 mi)