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- From: nigel.allen@canrem.com (Nigel Allen)
- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Subject: cp rail
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 14:50:56 -0600
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- CP Rail has apparently asked government permission to abandon all its
- lines east of Sherbrooke, Quebec. All or most of these lines are part of
- its Canada Atlantic railway.
-
- CN and CP are allowed to abandon 4% of their networks a year, I
- understand, but a large-scale abandonment like this would presumably
- require special permission.
-
- VIA Rail provides passenger service between Montreal and Halifax three
- days a week on the CP route through northern Maine and Saint John, New
- Brunswick. (It also provides three-times-a-week service on the CN route
- through northern New Brunswick.)
-
- CP's operations in Nova Scotia were traditionally operated as the
- Dominion Atlantic Railway, which is under 999-year lease to CP.
- Passenger service on CP's Nova Scotia lines ended in the massive VIA
- cutbacks of January 1991.
-
- This information is rather sketchy. I heard about CP Rail's
- application to abandon the service on the radio this evening, and
- everything else in this post is from memory.
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