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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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