New Brunswick East Coast Railway

New Brunswick East Coast Railway

Reporting marks	NBEC
Locale	New Brunswick, Canada
Dates of operation	1998–present
Track gauge	4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm) (standard gauge)
Headquarters	Campbellton, New Brunswick

The New Brunswick East Coast Railway is a 311 mile railway operating in New Brunswick between Campbellton and Pacific Junction near Moncton with important spurs between Dalhousie Junction and Dalhousie, Nepisiguit Junction and Brunswick Mines, and Nelson to Chatham. A reporting mark is an identification assigned by the Association of American Railroads (AAR to rail carriers and other companies operating in North America. New Brunswick ( French: Nouveau-Brunswick /nuvobʁɔnzwik/ is one of Canada 's three Maritime provinces and is the only constitutionally Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) Rail gauge is the distance between the inner sides of the two parallel rails that make up a railway track. A foot (plural feet or foot; symbol or abbreviation ft or sometimes &prime – the prime symbol) is a non-SI unit Inches redirects here To see the Les Savy Fav album see Inches. The Millimetre ( American spelling: millimeter, symbol mm) is a unit of Length in the Metric system, equal to The standard gauge (also named the Stephenson gauge after George Stephenson, or Normal gauge) is a widely-used Rail gauge. Campbellton (2006 population 7384 is a Canadian city in Restigouche County, New Brunswick. New Brunswick ( French: Nouveau-Brunswick /nuvobʁɔnzwik/ is one of Canada 's three Maritime provinces and is the only constitutionally Campbellton (2006 population 7384 is a Canadian city in Restigouche County, New Brunswick. Moncton ( is a Canadian city located in Westmorland County, New Brunswick. Dalhousie (2006 population 3676 is a Canadian town located in Restigouche County, New Brunswick. Nelson-Miramichi is a Canadian suburban neighbourhood in the city of Miramichi, New Brunswick. Chatham is a Canadian urban neighbourhood in the city of Miramichi, New Brunswick.

The mainline (and related spurs) was formerly Canadian National Railway's second mainline between Montreal and Moncton. Its entire route was built originally as the Intercolonial Railway of Canada. The Intercolonial Railway of Canada ( IRC or ICR) also referred to as the Intercolonial Railway, was a historic Canadian railway that operated NBEC started operations in December 1997 and is owned by the Société des chemins de fer du Québec. Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar The Société des chemins de fer du Québec (SCFQ or Quebec Railway Corporation in English is a Canadian railway holding company which owns several short line railways

VIA Rail's Montreal-Halifax passenger train, the Ocean, operates along the entire length of the NBEC's Newcastle Subdivision. VIA Rail Canada (also referred to as VIA Rail and VIA; ˈviːə 'vee-ah' is an independent Crown corporation offering intercity passenger rail Montreal, or Montréal in French ( pronounced in French, in English) is the largest city in the Canadian province of Quebec Metropolitan Halifax (2006 pop 282924) often referred to as Metro Halifax, or inaccurately Halifax, is the urban part of the Halifax Regional Municipality The Ocean is a Canadian Passenger train operated by VIA Rail between Montreal Quebec and Halifax, Nova Scotia

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