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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 ...
One of the most popular sections of the Kettle Valley Rail Trail is the section through Myra Canyon. [1] Myra Canyon is located south of Kelowna on Okanagan Mountain. The section of line originally transited between Midway and Penticton. When the railway was built, the section of railway between Myra station and June Springs station required 18 ...
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.
Name Address Coordinates Government recognition (CRHP №) Image Similkameen Spirit Trail National Historic Site of Canada Upper Similkameen River Valley / Vallee de la Upper Similkameen
Penticton offers many kinds of recreation, including skiing at the Apex Mountain Resort ski area; boating and fishing on Skaha Lake and Okanagan Lake, golfing on the area's many courses, hiking and biking the Kettle Valley Railway Trail, and rock climbing at Skaha Bluffs. In the summer many people enjoy floating down the river channel that ...
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 ...
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The westward advance of the Kettle Valley Railway (KV) rail head passed by Westbridge in spring 1911 [39] [40] and Rhone in fall. [41] By early 1913, the station was erected and construction trains were running beyond Carmi. [42] The Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) motive is unclear for the establishment of the Zamora station in close proximity.