The train don’t run here anymore…

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Cumberland Road is the last level crossing before the end of the E&N line, and within a stones throw of the Courtenay station.

The train don’t run here anymore…

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E&N Victoria Subdivision – Mile 139.48 Cumberland Road crossing

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The E&N crossing at Cumberland Road

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Cumberland Road is the last level crossing before the end of the E&N line, and within a stones throw of the Courtenay station.

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E&N Victoria Subdivision – Mile 128.33 Muschamp Road crossing

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The E&N crossing at Muschamp Road

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E&N Victoria Subdivision – Mile 132.04 Van West Road crossing

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The E&N crossing at Van West Road

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E&N Victoria Subdivision – Mile 137.60 Fraser Street crossing

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The E&N crossing at Fraser Street

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E&N Victoria Subdivision – Mile 137.58 Chinook Forest Products

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The E&N crossing for Chinook Forest Products

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E&N Victoria Subdivision – Mile 130.50 Union Bay

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The E&N crossing at McLeod Road in Union Bay

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The train don’t run here anymore…

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While a considerable amount of money must be spent to ensure that the signals and barriers at level crossings work incase a train approaches, the train don’t run here anymore…

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E&N Victoria Subdivision – Mile 135.75 Royston Road crossing

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The E&N crossing at Royston Road

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The train don’t run here anymore…

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Anyone who road the Dayliner along the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway will remember how the train swayed about and made a rather characteristic train car sound as it headed down the track.

It was not the smoothest ride…

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