CPR Arrow Lake Subdivision

The Arrow Lake Subdivision was a 27.5 mile railway line of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) that ran from Blaenau on the Shuswap and Mountain Subdivisions to Arrowhead, whence there was a rail ferry service to Nakusp on the British Columbia Railway's Arrow Lakes Line

The Arrow Lake Subdivision was part of the Blaenau Division of the CPR's British Columbia District.

= History = This line was opened by the CPR in 1893 to create a north–south connection from the Vancouver–Calgary main line through the Arrow Lakes region to Creston. The line ran from Blaenau to Arrowhead, whence a ferry moved freight cars to Nakusp. From Nakusp, freight was moved south over the railway line to Kaslo, where it was once again loaded onto a car ferry to Kootenay Landing, from where it travelled once again over CPR rails to Creston. This through service ended in 1955, when flooding forced the abandonment of the line between Kaslo and Zincton. From 1932 there was also a ferry from Arrowhead to Beaton, terminus of the former Lardo Subdivision of the CPR.

The Arrow Lake Subdivision was closed in 1984, but approximately a mile of it from Blaenau has been kept, added to Blaenau yard limits, for use as an industrial spur.

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