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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 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 .
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]
In April, the rail head crossed back into BC at Chopaka, having crossed the border five times, and reached Keremeos in July. [17] The recession following the Panic of 1907 slowed the northwestward progress beyond Keremeos. [6] The rail head reached Hedley in August 1909 and Princeton in November, with passenger service commencing the next month ...
Passenger service on the KVR ended in 1964. The Penticton–Beaverdell track was abandoned in 1973, and Beaverdell–Midway in 1979. [9] The CP eastward almost to Castlegar was abandoned in 1991. [11] The section from Castlegar to Grand Forks is now a cycling trail. [12] The former grade is now biking and skiing trails. [1] Verigin Memorial ...
Map of Bermuda Pink buses of Bermuda. Bermuda consists of several islands with an area of 53.2 km 2 (20.5 sq mi) with 447 km (278 mi) of paved roads — 225 km (140 mi) of which are public roads and 222 km (138 mi) are private paved roads. [1] A former railway track has been converted into a walking trail. [2]
This is a route-map template for the Bermuda Railway, a railway in Bermuda.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.