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Plaque Text
FORMER CARBONEAR RAILWAY STATION LANCIENNE GARE DE CARBONEAR This combined freight and passenger station is a rare surviving example of station design from the heyday of railway construction under the Reid Newfoundland Company. Built in 1917 on the site of an earlier structure, the station remained the northern terminus of the Brigus Junction to Carbonear branch line until the cessation of passenger trains in 1984. It provided waiting rooms, ticket sales, and administrative and baggage services. The building of the railway broadened the economic base of Carbonear and of other outports which were chosen as transshipment points for the coastal steamships. Cette gare de voyageurs et de marchandises offre un exemple désormais rare de larchitecture de lâge dor de la construction ferroviaire sous la Reid Newfoundland Company. Bâtie en 1917 sur lemplacement dune ancienne gare, elle fut le terminus nord de lembranchement de Brigus Junction à Carbonear jusquà linterruption du service des trains de voyageurs, en 1984. On y trouvait salles dattente, guichets, services administratifs et consigne pour les bagages. La construction du chemin de fer avait élargi lassise économique de Carbonear et dautres localités choisies comme points de transbordement des vapeurs côtiers. |
