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The operator agreement started on July 1, 2006. In January 2010, the Southern Railway of British Columbia new train ferry terminal started operating in the Fraser River on Annacis Island shipping to Nanaimo via the Seaspan train ferry. The new train marine terminal was built with the help of $4.6 million in federal funding and cost $11 million.
Port Guichon railway route. The wye was initially used for turning locomotives and accessing the Grant and Kerr sawmill. [6] Following stiff competition from Canadian Pacific Railway steamers from Vancouver and New Westminster (the latter calling at Port Guichon) and the withdrawal of an expected subsidy from the City of Victoria, the GN passenger ferry discontinued in December 1904. [10]
The Southern Railway of British Columbia, branded as SRY Rail Link (reporting mark SRY) is a Canadian short line railway operating in southwestern British Columbia. The main facility is the port at Annacis Island with major import of cars, export of forestry products, and other shipments.
Vancouver and Lulu Island Railway: Acquired by Canadian Pacific subsequently leased to British Columbia Electric Railway. Vancouver, Victoria and Eastern Railway: Vancouver, Westminster and Yukon Railway: ran from New Westminster to Vancouver along the Brunette and Still Creeks on modern CN alignment.
The Trans-Canada Highway on Vancouver Island terminates in the north at Departure Bay, where a BC Ferry terminal is located. Ferries out of Departure Bay connect the Trans-Canada Highway to the Lower Mainland at Horseshoe Bay. As a major connector to Vancouver, Departure Bay is the most heavily used Island terminal north of Swartz Bay.
The British Columbia Electric Railway (BCER) was a historic railway which operated in southwestern British Columbia, Canada.Originally the parent company for, and later a division of, BC Electric Company (now BC Hydro), the BCER assumed control of existing streetcar and interurban lines in southwestern British Columbia in 1897, and operated the electric railway systems in the region until the ...
Highway 19 services the terminals at Duke Point, including the BC Ferries terminal, and Highway 1 services the downtown terminals and the Departure Bay Ferry terminal. Southern Railway of Vancouver Island provides freight rail service to the downtown Nanaimo Assembly Wharf. Rail service is not provided to Duke Point.
A rail–steam–rail link was proposed by BC Premier Amor de Cosmos in 1871, but then voted down by the Victoria City Council. [1] The Victoria to Sidney rail route survey began in 1888, and the City of Victoria established the V&S in 1892 to build a rail line to serve the Saanich Peninsula.