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The Johnson Street Bridge is a bascule bridge spanning the Victoria Harbour in Victoria, British Columbia.Four known bridges have spanned the narrows between Victoria's Inner Harbour and Upper Harbour, connecting Johnson Street on the east shore with Esquimalt Road on the west shore. [1]
The successor to that line is the Victoria – Courtenay train operated by Via Rail over the Johnson Street Bridge (which opened in January 1924). The Victoria Yacht Club was founded on 8 June 1892 by a group of 46 yachtsmen and is the oldest sailing association in Western Canada. [16]
In 1924 the Johnson Street Bridge bascule bridge was constructed linking Downtown Victoria with Vic West. A second bridge, the Bay Street Bridge, stands where the Point Ellice Bridge was located. On May 26, 1896 an overloaded streetcar of holidaymakers celebrating Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee caused the Point Ellice Bridge to collapse ...
Johnston Street Bridge is a concrete road bridge crossing the Yarra River between the Melbourne suburbs of Abbotsford and Kew.. The current bridge was constructed in 1954-6 by the Victorian Country Roads Board (CRB) using a design employing cast-in-place reinforced-concrete curved T girders and an integral flat slab deck.
The trail surface is paved between the west terminus (Johnson Street Bridge) to Wale Road in Colwood, approximately 13 km, or one quarter of its total length. It connects to a multi-use path across the bridge and bike lanes along Pandora Avenue.
Johnson Street Bridge, across the Victoria Harbour Victoria, British Columbia Jackknife Bascule Bridge , over the Kaministiquia River in Thunder Bay , Ontario Bridges 1 ( Lakeshore Road Bridge ), 3A ( Carlton Street Bridge ), 4 ( Homer Bridge [Queenston Road]), 6 ( Flight Locks Railway Bridge for Canadian National Railways ), 19 ( Main Street ...
Victoria station was a railway station in Victoria, British Columbia, on the east end of the Johnson Street Bridge.The station opened in 1888, and was the southern terminus for Via Rail's Dayliner service which operated until 2011.
The E&N tracks used to run into downtown via the Johnson Street bridge, but as the bridge has been replaced due to deterioration, the railway component of the bridge has been permanently closed since in 2011. There is no longer rail on the Downtown side of the Johnson Street Bridge.