Route 127 is an East/West provincial highway in the
Canadian
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province of
New Brunswick
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. The Highway starts out in
Lawrence Station at the intersection of
Route 3 The road travels mainly south for almost 60 km through mostly rural communities. The road does pass
Rickets Island and runs along the Canada/US border as is the main route into
St. Andrews where the road name changes to Bayview Drive and Mowat Drive. In St. Andrews the highway takes a sharp almost U-Turn before finally ending in the community of
Bocabec.
History
Route 127 was commissioned in 1965 as a short loop off
Route 1 into St. Andrews. (Route 1 at that point followed the eastern shore of the
St. Croix River as far as Ghost Road in
Bayside, then crossed over to the east side of the peninsula to go north along
Passamaquoddy Bay
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.) When a new alignment of
Route 1 opened in 1973 between
Waweig and
Digdeguash, Route 127 was extended along the bypassed segments of Route 1. It was extended further north to
Lawrence Station in 1984 when
Route 765 was decommissioned.
Intersecting routes
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Route 770 in
Leverville
Lusanga (formerly Leverville) is a town in Kwilu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is at the confluence of the Kwenge and Kwilu rivers.
The town is served by a small airport (IATA Code: LUS).
In the colonial era the town was ...
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Route 760 in
Waweig
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Route 1 in
Gilmans Corner
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Route 170 in Gilmans Corner
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Route 1 in
Digedguash
River crossings
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Digdeguash River in
Dumbarton
Dumbarton (; also sco, Dumbairton; ) is a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, on the north bank of the River Clyde where the River Leven flows into the Clyde estuary. In 2006, it had an estimated population of 19,990.
Dumbarton was the ca ...
* (unknown river) south of Waweig
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Bocabec River in Bocabec
Communities along the Route
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Watt
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Dumbarton
Dumbarton (; also sco, Dumbairton; ) is a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, on the north bank of the River Clyde where the River Leven flows into the Clyde estuary. In 2006, it had an estimated population of 19,990.
Dumbarton was the ca ...
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Greenock
Greenock (; sco, Greenock; gd, Grianaig, ) is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council areas of Scotland, council area in Scotland, United Kingdom and a former burgh of barony, burgh within the Counties of Scotland, historic ...
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Leverville
Lusanga (formerly Leverville) is a town in Kwilu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is at the confluence of the Kwenge and Kwilu rivers.
The town is served by a small airport (IATA Code: LUS).
In the colonial era the town was ...
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Waweig
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Gilmans Corner
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Bayside
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Wileys Corner
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St. Andrews
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Edwards Corner
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Chamcook Lake
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Bocabec Cove
See also
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List of New Brunswick provincial highways
This is a list of numbered provincial highways in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. These provincial highways are maintained by the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure in New Brunswick. For a list of formerly-numbered highways, ...
References
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