Victoria Terminal Railway and Ferry Company

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The Victoria Terminal Railway and Ferry Company (VTRF) was a shortline railway company operating two railway lines and a connecting ferry that linked Vancouver Island and the south arm of the Fraser River in Metro Vancouver.

Construction & interchange[edit]

In March 1901, the Great Northern Railway (GN) acquired a controlling interest in the VV&E,[1] owner of the VTRF, which in October commenced work on a railway line in Victoria.[2] In 1902, the VTRF acquired the Victoria and Sidney Railway.[3] In 1903, the VTRF opened the short Cloverdale–Port Guichon railway link, and commenced the Port Guichon–Sidney train ferry that connected with the Victoria and Sidney Railway.[4]

Cloverdale was an interchange on the New Westminster Southern Railway Company (NWSR), a GN subsidiary, which at the time connected today's Pacific Highway Border Crossing with Brownsville (Surrey docks).[5] In 1904, the New Westminster Bridge replaced the Fraser River ferry crossing to New Westminster, from which point the Vancouver, Westminster and Yukon Railway charter predicated access to Downtown Vancouver,[6] where the GN station stood immediately to the north of the existing Pacific Central Station.[7]

Operation & demise[edit]

The daily ferry service that operated during the early years also carried railway freight cars.[8] The VTRF train terminal, initially on the wharf, moved to Savoy St in 1924, and was used for about five more years. The limited passenger service to Ladner ended in the 1930s. The primary freight item was cattle. In 1943, the Ladner Fisherman's Co-operative Association purchased the station for a meeting hall. In the 1960s, the building, which holds a historic places designation, was substantially enlarged.[9] The eastern part of the Cloverdale–Ladner right-of-way forms an east–west section of the BC Rail track to Roberts Bank Superport.

Ladner passenger rail[edit]

Passenger Service
Type Period Frequency Terminal Via Terminal
1903 [10] 1905 [11] Daily Port Guichon Cloverdale, New Westminster Downtown Vancouver
1905 [12] 1905 [13] Tue, Thu, Sat.
[14] [15] Mon, Wed, Fri. Port Guichon Cloverdale
[16] [17] Mon, Fri.
1905 [18] 1907 [19] Mon.
mixed 1907 [20][21] 1908 [22] Mon, Wed, Fri. Port Guichon Cloverdale, New Westminster Downtown Vancouver
1908 [23] 1909 [24] Tue, Fri.
1909 [25] 1909 [25] Fri. Port Guichon Cloverdale New Westminster
1909 [26] 1916 [27] Daily
1918 [28] 1918 [28] Daily Port Guichon Cloverdale
1919 [29] 1925 [30] Daily Port Guichon Cloverdale, Abbotsford Sumas
Stations renamed: Guichon became Ladner; Ladner became Challucthan
mixed 1926 [31] 1926 [32] Daily Ladner Cloverdale, Abbotsford Sumas
1927 [33] 1929 [34] Mon, Wed, Fri.
1929 [35] 1929 [36] Mon, Wed, Fri. Ladner Cloverdale
1930 [37] 1930 [38] Tue, Fri. Ladner Colebrook
1930 [39] 1931 [40] Sat.


See also[edit]

"1939 BC highway map". www.reddit.com.


Footnotes[edit]

  1. ^ Turner & Wilkie 2007, p. 29.
  2. ^ "Daily Colonist, 22 Oct 1901". www.archive.org. p. 3.
  3. ^ "Daily Colonist, 2 Feb 1902". www.archive.org. p. 8.
  4. ^ "Daily Colonist, 17 May 1903". www.archive.org. p. 2.
  5. ^ "Surrey railway map, 1914". www.wordpress.com.
  6. ^ Turner & Wilkie 2007, p. 28.
  7. ^ Turner & Wilkie 2007, p. 159.
  8. ^ The Coast Of BC , p. 225, at Google Books
  9. ^ "VTRF Station". www.historicplaces.ca.
  10. ^ "Daily News". www.library.ubc.ca. 1 Aug 1903. p. 4.
  11. ^ "Delta Times". www.library.ubc.ca. 4 Feb 1905. p. 2.
  12. ^ "Delta Times". www.library.ubc.ca. 18 Feb 1905. p. 2.
  13. ^ "Delta Times". www.library.ubc.ca. 4 Mar 1905. p. 2.
  14. ^ "Delta Times". www.library.ubc.ca. 1 Apr 1905. p. 2.
  15. ^ "Delta Times". www.library.ubc.ca. 6 May 1905. p. 3.
  16. ^ "Delta Times". www.library.ubc.ca. 13 May 1905. p. 3.
  17. ^ "Delta Times". www.library.ubc.ca. 21 Oct 1905. p. 3.
  18. ^ "Delta Times". www.library.ubc.ca. 18 Nov 1905. p. 3.
  19. ^ "Daily News". www.library.ubc.ca. 13 Aug 1907. p. 7.
  20. ^ "Daily News". www.library.ubc.ca. 18 Sep 1907. p. 2.
  21. ^ "Timetable" (PDF). www.gn-npjointarchive.org. 17 Nov 1907. pp. 7–8.
  22. ^ "Daily News". www.library.ubc.ca. 13 Mar 1908. p. 7.
  23. ^ "Timetable" (PDF). www.gn-npjointarchive.org. 27 Dec 1908. pp. 7–8.
  24. ^ "Timetable" (PDF). www.gn-npjointarchive.org. 2 Mar 1909. pp. 7–8.
  25. ^ a b "Timetable" (PDF). www.gn-npjointarchive.org. 28 Mar 1909. p. 9.
  26. ^ "Timetable" (PDF). www.gn-npjointarchive.org. 23 May 1909. p. 10.
  27. ^ "Timetable" (PDF). www.gn-npjointarchive.org. 11 Jun 1916. p. 11.
  28. ^ a b "Timetable" (PDF). www.gn-npjointarchive.org. 17 Nov 1918. p. 11.
  29. ^ "Timetable" (PDF). www.gn-npjointarchive.org. 23 Feb 1919. p. 11.
  30. ^ "Timetable" (PDF). www.gn-npjointarchive.org. 10 May 1925. p. 11.
  31. ^ "Timetable" (PDF). www.gn-npjointarchive.org. 27 Jun 1926. p. 11.
  32. ^ "Timetable" (PDF). www.gn-npjointarchive.org. 25 Jul 1926. p. 11.
  33. ^ "Timetable" (PDF). www.gn-npjointarchive.org. 26 Jun 1927. p. 11.
  34. ^ "Timetable" (PDF). www.gn-npjointarchive.org. 11 Jun 1929. p. 6.
  35. ^ "Timetable" (PDF). www.gn-npjointarchive.org. 15 Sep 1929. p. 6.
  36. ^ "Timetable" (PDF). www.gn-npjointarchive.org. 1 Dec 1929. p. 6.
  37. ^ "Timetable" (PDF). www.gn-npjointarchive.org. 2 Feb 1930. p. 6.
  38. ^ "Timetable" (PDF). www.gn-npjointarchive.org. 9 Nov 1930. p. 4.
  39. ^ "Timetable" (PDF). www.gn-npjointarchive.org. 21 Dec 1930. p. 4.
  40. ^ "Timetable" (PDF). www.gn-npjointarchive.org. 6 Sep 1931. p. 4.


References[edit]

  • Turner, Robert D.; Wilkie, J.S. David (2007). Steam Along the Boundary. Sono Nis Press. ISBN 978 1-55039-158-9.


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