Talk:New Westminster Bridge

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It doesn't appear that the Canadian Northern Railway built this bridge. A 1921 CN annual report shows the CN (ex-CNOR) line ending at Fraser River Junction, at the east end of the bridge. After that are two lines: In addition, the CNOR wasn't completed across BC until 1915, so it's doubtful that the CNOR built the bridge in 1904. Most likely is that it was constructed by the government, with the GN initially using it. --NE2 19:34, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * New Westminster To Gov't Bridge (Running rights) 1.00
 * Gov't Bridge to Vancouver (Running rights G. N. Railway) 13.00
 * Knowing BC politics well, it's quite likely the government bore the costs of construction for the GN's bridge in return for some party donations (party politics began in BC only in 1903 btw). But yeah, it was a GN bridge at first for sure (similarly the Sumas-Mission line was originally an American railroad, as I recall, though which I'm not sure).Skookum1 (talk) 19:51, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * That one seems to have always been CP, connecting to NP and Milwaukee at Sumas. The GN had a pretty big British Columbian presence, for instance the Kaslo and Slocan Railway and Nelson and Fort Sheppard Railway. If you ask me in a week I'll probably have more details, since I'm currently adding Canada to my GIS data. --NE2 20:32, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * replying to a very old post; NE2 is thinking of the CPR bridge at Mission; the CPR has no tracks on the south side of the Fraser, and it's the line from Mission that connects to Sumas and that's a CPR line.Skookum1 (talk) 13:25, 10 January 2015 (UTC)