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In 1984, BC Rail acquired the British Columbia Harbours Board Railway, a 37-kilometre (23 mi) line that connects three class I railways with Roberts Bank, an ocean terminal that handles coal shipments.
Harbours Board was a strategically important short line that gave CN, the CPR and Burlington Northern (later BNSF) access to the Roberts Bank Terminal, a huge coal shipping facility. By the early 1980s, BC Rail was showing a profit.
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BC RAIL LTD was incorporated as the Pacific Great Eastern (PGE) Railway on 27 Feb 1912 during the optimistic railway-building era that preceded WWI.
Dec 14, 2018 · In 1953 it was bought out by Canadian National which is what it is today. Canadian National went as far as Lonsdale and then it was PGE and then BC Railway. CN bought BC Railway in 2006.
Jun 26, 2024 · Last updated on June 26, 2024. BCRC’s primary mandate is to acquire and hold railway corridor and strategic port lands and to make related infrastructure investments to provide benefits to the province. BCRC owns the former BC Rail railway lands and tracks infrastructure, which is leased to CN Rail through the Revitalization Agreement.
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Chartered as a private company in 1912 as the Pacific Great Eastern Railway ( PGE ), it was acquired by the provincial government in 1918. In 1972 it was renamed to the British Columbia Railway, and in 1984 it took on its present name of BC Rail.
