A View Towards Brownsville

 

Fraser River Bridge and Brownsville Brownsville Closeup

 

A Vancouver-bound passenger train about to enter the Great Northern station in New Westminster around 1909. Below the locomotive is the railway's Front Street trackage (nearest the shore) with the CP alongside it. Across the Fraser River to the right is Brownsville, the terminus of the NWSR, the end of the line of GN's first incursion into British Columbia. To the right of Brownsville appears to be the dock at Yale Road (select area for a more detailed view).

The terminus of the NWSR is now part of CN's Brownsville Industrial Line, where a section of the original track closest the old dock has been removed. The line is now used by BNSF trains heading to Port Mann, travelling underneath the Fraser River Bridge then past the old station of Liverpool. The Brownsville listed in BNSF time tables (MP 139.5) is at a different location than that shown above.

 

Brownsville Interchange

Brownsville Today

Yale Meets Brownsville

 

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