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VIA Rail Victoria – Courtenay train schedule Archived February 5, 2015, at the Wayback Machine; 1925 Railway Schedule from Waghorn's Guide; Video clips of the E&N from Youtube; Crown Land Grants: A History of the E&N Archived October 3, 2011, at the Wayback Machine includes a map of Vancouver Island showing the boundaries of the land grant
The Victoria–Courtenay train (named the Malahat until 2009) was a passenger train service operated by Via Rail between Victoria, Nanaimo, and Courtenay on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. The service operated over the Island Rail Corridor. [1] In March 2011, was suspended indefinitely due to poor track conditions along the line. [2]
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.
On Vancouver Island, CNoP had a line that competed with the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway (owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway at the time) but went a different route from Victoria. The route would go to Sooke (At the time Milnes Landing), through Leechtown , then pass the west side of Shawnigan Lake to Cowichan Lake .
The Vancouver and Lulu Island Railway proposal included a connecting ferry to Ladner [2] that never eventuated. During 1898–1900, the three times weekly CP Navigation Victoria-New Westminster schedule included Lulu Island and Ladner. [3] The 45-passenger Sonoma [4] ran twice daily Ladner-Steveston during 1905–1909. [5]
The E&N rail tracks from up island provide access into Vic West, across the inlet from downtown Victoria. 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.