Former Carbonear Railway Station (Newfoundland Railway)

This combined freight and passenger station is a rare surviving example of station design from the heyday of railway construction under the Reid Newfoundland Company. Built in 1917 on the site of an earlier structure, the station remained the northern terminus of the Brigus Junction to Carbonear branch line until the cessation of passenger trains in 1984. It provided waiting rooms, ticket sales, and administrative and baggage services. The building of the railway broadened the economic base of Carbonear and of other outports which were chosen as transshipment points for the coastal steamshipships.

Cette gare de voyageurs et de marchandises offre un exemple désormais rare de l’architecture de l’âge d’or de la construction ferroviaire sous la Reid Newfoundland Company. Bâtie en 1917 sur l’emplacement d’une ancienne gare, elle fut le terminus nord de l’embranchement de Brigus Junction à Carbonear jusqu’à l’interruption du service des trains de voyageurs, en 1984. On y trouvait salles d’attente, guichets, services administratifs et consigne pour les bagages. La construction du chemin de fer avait élargi l’assise économique de Carbonear et d’autres localités choisies comme points de transbordement des vapeurs côtiers.