Summit Lake on the Port Alberni Subdivision with Mount Arrowsmith in the background.
Overview
Headquarters
Nanaimo, British Columbia
Locale
Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Dates of operation
Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway 1884-1905 Canadian Pacific Railway 1905-2018 RailAmerica 2018-2006 Southern Railway of Vancouver Island (under contract with the Island Corridor Foundation) 2006-present–
Technical
Track gauge
1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Length
293 km (182 mi)
Route map
Legend
Victoria Subdivision
0mi
mi0
Port Alberni Subdivision
39.5
Port Alberni Terminal
38.0
Port Alberni Yard
37.0
Alberni
Roger Creek
Kitsuksis Creek
End of Track
139.9
35.9
Farris
35.6
Solly
Courtenay
139.7
18.4
Bainbridge
Royston
135.8
Mile 29.9
Trent River
Mile 28.9
Washer Creek
28.1
Bostock
Union Bay
130.2
26.1
Tebo
Hindoo Creek
Mile 25.0
Buckley Bay Road
24.6
Stokes
Buckley Bay
126.2
Loon Lake West
Tsable River
21.9
Arrowsmith
Fanny Bay
124.7
Loon Lake East
Mill Creek
Summit Lake
Coal Creek
21.1
Locharkaig
Waterloo Creek
Mile 20.2
Mud Bay
121.0
Mile 18.8
Rosewall Creek
18.4
Apenes
Cook Creek
Mile 18.1
Cook Creek
Mountain Creek
Bowser
114.5
Mile 14.6
Nile Creek
Mile 14.0
Big Qualicum River
Mile 13.8
Dunsmuir
110.2
Mile 13.7
Dashwood
105.0
12.7
Cameron Lake
Little Qualicum River
Little Qualicum River
Qualicum Beach
101.8
Lockwood Creek
French Creek
French Creek
4.4
Coombs
Wye Junction
Hwy 19
Parksville
095.2
0.0
mi0
Port Alberni Subdivision
Englishman River
Craig
091.9
Bryn
089.7
Nanoose Creek
Nanoose Bay
086.7
Bonnel Creek
Jayem
084.4
Hwy 19
Green Lake
Hwy 19
Doumont Road
Wellington
077.5
mi0
Wellcox Spur
Northfield
075.0
Millstone River
3.0
Wellcox Yard
Nanaimo
072.5
Chase River
Chase River
Wye Junction
Hwy 1
Stockett
070.0
0.0
Hwy 19
mi0
Wellcox Spur
Starks
069.2
South Wellington
067.2
Nanaimo River
Cassidy
064.8
Haslam Creek
Storms
063.0
Brenton
061.6
Bush Creek
Hwy 1
Ladysmith
058.4
Blaineys
056.0
Saltair
054.5
Chemainus
051.2
Chemainus River
Osborn Bay
047.5
Westholme
046.8
Mile 46.8
Whitehouse Creek
Mount Sicker
046.2
Tyee
044.4
Hwy 1
Somenos
042.7
Hayward
041.6
Duncan
039.7
Cowichan River
Koksilah
038.1
Koksilah River
Mile 37.6
Koksilah Road
Cowichan
035.5
Hillbank
034.1
Cobble Hill
031.2
Northgate Road
Shawnigan Creek
Shawnigan Creek
Shawnigan Creek
Shawnigan
027.8
Shawnigan Lake Road
Strathcona Lodge
026.2
Last Spike
Cliffside
025.0
Fitzgerald
021.9
Malahat
020.0
Mile 18.2
17 Mile Post
017.0
Malahat Tunnel
Arbutus Canyon
Niagara Canyon
Niagara
013.7
Goldstream
010.7
Langford
007.9
E&N Trail
E&N Trail
Six Mile Road
Brydon Road
Island Highway
Adams Place
Palmer
004.8
Helmcken Road
Island Highway
Esquimalt
003.7
Admirals
002.5
Hereward Road
Russells
000.8
E&N Roundhouse
000.7
2012 End of Track
000.3
000.0
Victoria Subdivision
0mi
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The Island Corridor, previously the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway (E&N Railway), is a railway operation on Vancouver Island. It is owned by the Island Corridor Foundation, a registered charity. The railway line is 225 kilometres (140 mi) in length from Victoria to Courtenay, known as the Victoria Subdivision, with a branch line from Parksville to Port Alberni, known as the Port Alberni Subdivision, of 64 kilometres (40 mi), for a total 289 kilometres (180 mi) of mainline track. In 2006, the Island Corridor Foundation acquired the railway's ownership from RailAmerica and Canadian Pacific Railway.
Passenger service has been "temporarily suspended" since 2011 due to poor infrastructure condition that resulted from deferred maintenance.[1]
^"Island freight rail halted over track safety concerns". Times Colonist. November 5, 2014. Retrieved November 6, 2014.
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