Author: SWANSON, R.E.
Title: The History of a Railway [Wellington Colliery Railway, Nanaimo]
Description: Victoria, BC: Railways Branch, 1960. First Edition. Paperback. "A short article intended to preserve the history and statistics of the Wellington Colliery Railway, one of the early narrow-gauge railways which ushered in wide gauge on Vancouver Island before the transcontinental railways reached the shores of the Pacific. The railway was abandoned in 1899, and the locomotives and rails taken to Extension. Today, timber grows on the old grades over which millions of tons of Wellington coal had been hauled." - pages 3 and 5. Includes black and white reproductions of five archival photographs which show the first train to Wellington in 1880, the locomotive Columbia, the last coal to be hoisted in the Nanaimo-Wellington district in November 1953, and more. Author was chief inspector of the Railways Branch. 8 stapled pages in blue card covers. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. Insect damage to bottom two inches of left margin of page 3, contents unaffected. A sound example of this rare history. 10.5" x 7.4". ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Swanson, R.E. The History of a Railway Province of British Columbia, Department of Commercial Transport - Railways Branch 8 pages in blue card covers. A short article intended to preserve the history and statistics of the Wellington Colliery Railway,. Good .

Keywords: Mining Transportation