The New Brunswick East Coast Railway, established on January 19, 1998 and beginning operations in December 1997, was a railway operating in the Canadian province of New Brunswick as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Société des chemins de fer du Quebec. It included 311 miles of track, of which 196 miles formed the mainline between Campbellton and Pacific Junction near Moncton, along with spurs connecting Dalhousie Junction and Dalhousie, Nepisiguit Junction and Brunswick Mines, and Nelson and Chatham. Its mainline had formerly been the second mainline of Canadian National Railway between Montreal and Moncton, built originally as the Intercolonial Railway of Canada, and Via Rail passenger train the Ocean, running between Montreal and Halifax, operates along the length of its Newcastle Subdivision.
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Founded Year SignificanceVia Rail's Montreal to Halifax passenger train, the Ocean, runs the entire length of the NBEC's former Newcastle Subdivision. 1 Merged IntoCanadian National Railway 1 In the Other Atlases
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1. Wikipedia: New Brunswick East Coast Railway Encyclopedia Article
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Established 19 January 1998, NBEC actually started operations in December 1997 and was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Société des chemins de fer du Québec (Quebec Railway Corporation).
CN purchase section
On 3 November 2008 CN announced that it was purchasing the NBEC and its sister companies Chemin de fer de la Matapédia et du Golfe (CFMG), Compagnie de gestion de Matane (COGEMA), and the Ottawa Central Railway (OCR) for $49.8 million (CAD) from the Quebec Railway Corporation.
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Via Rail's Montreal-Halifax passenger train, the Ocean, operates along the entire length of the NBEC's Newcastle Subdivision.
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was a railway that operated in the Canadian province of New Brunswick
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The New Brunswick East Coast Railway (reporting mark NBEC) was a railway that operated in the Canadian province of New Brunswick.
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