Kingston and Pembroke Railway
The Kingston and Pembroke Railway (K&P) was a Canadian railway that operated in eastern Ontario. The railway was seen as a business opportunity which would support the lumber and mining industries, as well as the agricultural economy in eastern Ontario.
Incorporated in 1871, the K&P was intended to run from Kingston to Pembroke. By 1884, approximately 180 kilometres of mainline and sidings had been laid, reaching Renfrew. By this time the Canada Central Railway had already built a line from Renfrew to Pembroke, and it no longer made financial sense to continue. Thus the K&P was terminated at Renfrew.
Due to decreasing timber and mineral resources in the late 19th century,[1] the company developed financial difficulties. The line was leased to the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) for 999 years in an agreement formalized in 1912. The CPR officially gained control of the K&P on January 1, 1913 and the K&P was no longer a legal entity.[2][3] The line was gradually abandoned beginning in the 1950s, with the last operating section from Kingston to Tichborne closing in 1986.
The K&P is affectionately remembered as the Kick and Push railroad.
The line has been converted to a rail trail known as the K&P Rail Trail.
[edit] Stations
This is a list of stations from north to south.[4] This list will differ from others since some of the stations were known by different names, some stations were informal stops known only by local residents and train personnel, and some trains only travelled part of the route.[5]
| Renfrew |
| Opeongo (Ferguslea) |
| Ashdad |
| Calabogie |
| Barryvale |
| Flower |
| Clyde Forks |
| Folger |
| Lavant |
| Wilbur |
| Mississippi |
| Robertsville |
| Clarendon |
| Oso |
| Sharbot Lake |
| Olden |
| Tichborne |
| Hinchinbrooke |
| Godfrey |
| Verona |
| Hartington |
| Harrowsmith |
| Murvale |
| Glenvale |
| Kingston |
[edit] References
- Hughes, Robert (March 22, 1998) (– Scholar search), The Kingston & Pembroke Railway, archived from the original on 2007-10-21, http://web.archive.org/web/20071021062017/http://home.primus.ca/~robkath/railkrp.htm, retrieved 2007-10-29[dead link]
- North America Maps - The Kingston & Pembroke Railway, March 22, 1998, http://www.niagararails.com/cgi-bin/img.cgi?/maps/kingpem.gif, retrieved 2007-10-29 (undated sketch map of mainline)
- Collections, Canada (July 16, 2008), Collections Canada - The Kingston & Pembroke Railway - Maps + Info, archived from the original on 2008-02-23, http://web.archive.org/web/20080223143932/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/trains/h30-2061-e.html#g, retrieved 2008-07-16
- Armstrong, Alvin (1973), Buckskin to Broadloom - Kingston Grows Up, Kingston, Ontario: Kingston Whig-Standard, ISBN None
- Bennett, Carol; McCuaig, D W (1981), In Search of the K&P, Renfrew, ON: Renfrew Advance, ISBN 9780919137011, OCLC 15900569
- "New York Times" (PDF), The New York Times, August 27, 1901, http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9905E2DF103EE333A25754C2A96E9C946097D6CF, retrieved 2009-09-22
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