Sidney Great Northern Station

 

 

Sidney Station

The Victoria & Sidney Railway station at Sidney on Vancouver Island. With the abandonment of the V&S in 1919, the structure was moved and became a Scouts Hall in town. In the early 1970's it was dismantled for use on a tourist railway near Victoria and left in that state near what is now the Galloping Goose Trail. John Green, who helped with the dismantling, says the station was still there when he last checked in 2001, the pile covered with brush and bush (view photo).

Of the many Great Northern stations built in British Columbia, only a few survive today: Douglas (built 1890), White Rock (the second station, built 1912), New Westminster (the third station, built ca. 1958 and the only one still in use by the BNSF), Tulameen (built ca. 1914), Princeton (built 1909), Salmo (the second station, built ca . 1915, but the first of GNR design since it did not build the original line), and Kuskonook (built ca. 1899). In the 1980's the Similkameen station (built ca. 1907) near Cawston was sitting in a field along the highway; it may still survive today.

 

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