The History of a Railway

1960

Victoria, BC

Swanson, R.E.

Province of British Columbia, Department of Commercial Transport, - Railways Branch

4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

F First Edition

Swanson, R.E. The History of a Railway Province of British Columbia, Department of Commercial Transport - Railways Branch 8 pages in, blue card covers. A short article intended to preserve the, history and statistics of the Wellington Colliery Railway, one of the early narrow-gauge railways which ushered in wide, gauge on Vancouver Island before the transcontinental railways, reached the shores of the Pacific. The railway was abandoned in, 1899, and the locomotives and rails taken to Extension. Today, timber grows on the old grades over which millions of tons of, Wellington coal had been hauled." - from pages 3 and 5. Includes, copies of 5 black and white photographs which show the first, train to Wellington in 1880, the locomotive Columbia, the last coal to be hoisted in the Nanaimo-Wellington district, in November 1953, and more. Author was chief inspector of the Railways Branch., Unmarked. Average wear. Some damage to bottom two inches of left, margin of page 3. Blue card covers. Vancouver Island History, Nanaimo Coal Mining Robert Dunsmuir Diggle British Columbia, Transportation

S Paperback

Good

English

Softcover

Yes