Narrow Gauge Railways In Canada
Although most railways of central and eastern Canada were initially built to a Indian gauge, broad gauge, there were several, especially in Atlantic Canada and Ontario, which were built as individual narrow-gauge lines. These were generally less expensive to build, but were more vulnerable to frost heaving because vertical displacement of one rail caused greater angular deflection of the narrower two-rail running surface. Most of the longer examples were Track gauge conversion, regauged starting in the 1880s as the railway network began to be bought up by larger companies. The largest systems in the country were the lines such as: the Newfoundland Railway and others on the island of Newfoundland (island), Newfoundland (); Ontario's Toronto and Nipissing Railway and Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway (); the Prince Edward Island Railway (); and the New Brunswick Railway () in the Saint John River (New Brunswick), Saint John River valley of New Brunswick. Various mining and industri ...
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