RAILWAY NETWORK OF THE WORLD
Trans – continental railways
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Railway
routes which join two ends of the continent, e.g., Canada pacific railway,
trans – Siberian railway and the Australian trans – continental railway.
Canada pacific railway (CPR)
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Runs
from Vancouver (British Columbia) on the pacific coast to st. John ’s (New
Brunswick) on the Atlantic coast.
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Calgary,
Regina, Winnipeg, fort William, port author, Sudbury, I Ottawa and Montreal are
the main stations of this route.
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Extensively
used for freight transport and unpopular for passenger transport.
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Joins
Quebec – Montreal industrial region with soft wood forest region and wheat
region of prairies.
The Canada national railway (CNR)
