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Southern end of Route 490 concurrency 13.2: 8.2: Mattis Point Road (Route 461-11) - Mattis Point: Stephenville Crossing: 13.9: 8.6: Route 490 north (Stephenville Access Road/Katarina Roxon Way) – Stephenville: Northern end of Route 490 concurrency: 21.0: 13.0: Route 460 (White's Road/Hansen Memorial Highway) to Route 1 (TCH) – Stephenville ...
Newfoundland Railway Station, St. John's. By the early 1920s, the Reid Newfoundland Company's losses were mounting and in 1923 the colonial government passed the Railway Settlement Act which cancelled the operating contract for the entire system, passing the railway into government control (a form of nationalization).
The route is the only provincial route with no communities prevalent – it is designed as an access to the Lushes Bight–Beaumont–Beaumont North (Long Island) ferry. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The maximum speed limit for much of Route 382 is 60 km/h, but is reduced to 30 km/h when approaching the ferry.
The route continues northeastward and passes through the shoreline communities of Michael's Harbour [3] and Campbellton, where the route intersects Route 343. Continuing northeastward, the route also intersects Route 331. This route leads to ferries connecting Change Islands and Fogo Island with the main island. [2]
Launched on 8 September 1900, she was 155 feet (47 m) long and 439 gross register tons. Her route was between Trepassy, Newfoundland and Hopedale, Labrador. Sold in 1948 to the Home Steamship Company, Ltd., she was lost when she broke her moorings on 18 November 1952, stranding at Jerseyman Harbour in Fortune Bay. [1] I
CNR renamed this train in 1950 to the Caribou and it maintained approximately the same 23-hour schedule from St. John's (also the eastern terminus of the railway on Newfoundland), to the system's western terminus at the ferry terminal in Port aux Basques, where connecting ferry services to the North American railway network at North Sydney ...
The death knell came for both the Newfoundland and P.E.I. Railways in 1987 when Canada deregulated its railway industry and allowed railways to abandon money-losing lines. The Newfoundland Railway was the longest narrow-gauge system in North America at the time of its abandonment in September 1988.
Route 90, also known as Salmonier Line and St. Mary's Bay Highway, is an 88.0-kilometre-long (54.7 mi) north-south Highway on the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland. It connects the communities along the eastern side of St. Mary's Bay with the Trans Canada Highway and Holyrood .