Grant Brook (GTP railway point)

British Columbia. Railway Point
Canadian National Railway, SE. of Moose Lake
52.9 N 118.7667 W — Map 083D15 — GoogleGeoHack
Name officially adopted in 1983
Official in BCCanada
14 miles west of the Yellowhead Pass on the Canadian National Railway
Mile 32 in Albreda Subdivision (Jasper to Blue River as of 1977)
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway station built in 1913

Among depots that were left vacant on the abandoned Grand Trunk Pacific Railway grade in 1917. Rainbow (GTP railway point) was relocated to Red Pass Junction in 1917 and Yellowhead (railway point) burned down about 1918.

The stations at Fitzwilliam, Grant Brook and Lucerne (GTP railway point) were rehabilitated in 1924, when that section of the line was re-opened.

References:

  • Bohi, Charles W., and Kozma, Leslie S. Canadian National’s Western Stations. Don Mills, Ontario: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2002, p. 77

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