Bend station
Railway station in British Columbia, Canada
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Bend station is on the Canadian National Railway mainline in Bend, British Columbia. Via Rail's Jasper – Prince Rupert train calls at the station as a flag stop.[2][3]
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| Location | Bend, British Columbia Canada | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 53°46′N 121°04′W[1] | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | Sign post | ||||||||||
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| Previous names | Grand Trunk Pacific Railway | ||||||||||
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The stop is across the Fraser River from the village of Dome Creek which is accessible by Gravel Road from Yellowhead Highway 16.
History
Bend, like Guilford to its northwest, and Kidd to its southeast, was an original train station (1914) on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway[4][5] (the Canadian National Railway after nationalization). Bend lies at Mile 57.7, Fraser Subdivision[6] (about Mile 147 during the line's construction).
Commencing the 1928 special Dominion Day train to Prince George from Bend suggests the community's significance at the time.[7] At the rail bridge in 1931, a train struck and killed Elfrida Strand, who was searching for stray horses with her husband.[8] In 1948, another rail accident occurred when two forestry speeders carrying 17 men to a forest fire at Loos collided near Bend, resulting in hospitalizations.[9] In 1946, a spirited moose paced a westbound train. Tripping on the encrusted snow at Mile 58, it fell behind the tender, derailing four freight cars.[10]
Built in 1914, the standard-design Plan 100-152 (Bohi's Type E)[11][12] station building could not have survived the 1942 fire, or been the structure dismantled in 1962. The fate of an unidentified freight and passenger shelter is unclear.[13]
| Service | 1914–c.1915 | c.1916–c.1921 | c.1921–1931 | 1932–1942 | 1943–c.1948 | c.1949–1968 | 1968–1977 | 1977–present |
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| Passenger | Regular stop | Flag stop | Flag stop | Flag stop | Flag stop | Flag stop | ||
| Way freight | Flag stop probably | Flag stop probably | Regular stop | Regular stop | Regular stop | Flag stop | Flag stop |