Island Rail Corridor

Island Corridor

Summit Lake on the Port Alberni Subdivision with Mount Arrowsmith in the background.
Overview
Headquarters	Nanaimo, British Columbia
Locale	Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Dates of operation	Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway 1884–1905 Canadian Pacific Railway 1905–2018 RailAmerica 2006–2018 Southern Railway of Vancouver Island (under contract with the Island Corridor Foundation) 2006–present–
Technical
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Length	293 km (182 mi)
Route map Legend Victoria Subdivision 0mi mi0 Port Alberni Subdivision 39.5 Port Alberni Terminal 38.0 Port Alberni Yard 37.0 Alberni Roger Creek Kitsuksis Creek End of Track 139.9 35.9 Farris 35.6 Solly Courtenay 139.7 18.4 Bainbridge Royston 135.8 Mile 29.9 Trent River Mile 28.9 Washer Creek 28.1 Bostock Union Bay 130.2 26.1 Tebo Hindoo Creek Mile 25.0 Buckley Bay Road 24.6 Stokes Buckley Bay 126.2 Loon Lake West Tsable River 21.9 Arrowsmith Fanny Bay 124.7 Loon Lake East Mill Creek Summit Lake Coal Creek 21.1 Locharkaig Waterloo Creek Mile 20.2 Mud Bay 121.0 Mile 18.8 Rosewall Creek 18.4 Apenes Cook Creek Mile 18.1 Cook Creek Mountain Creek Bowser 114.5 Mile 14.6 Nile Creek Mile 14.0 Big Qualicum River Mile 13.8 Dunsmuir 110.2 Mile 13.7 Dashwood 105.0 12.7 Cameron Lake Little Qualicum River Little Qualicum River Qualicum Beach 101.8 Lockwood Creek French Creek French Creek 4.4 Coombs Wye Junction Highway 19 Parksville 095.2 0.0 mi0 Port Alberni Subdivision Englishman River Craig 091.9 Bryn 089.7 Nanoose Creek Nanoose Bay 086.7 Bonnel Creek Jayem 084.4 Highway 19 Green Lake Highway 19 Doumont Road Wellington 077.5 mi0 Wellcox Spur Northfield 075.0 Millstone River 3.0 Wellcox Yard Nanaimo 072.5 Chase River Chase River Wye Junction Highway 1 Stockett 070.0 0.0 Highway 19 mi0 Wellcox Spur Starks 069.2 South Wellington 067.2 Nanaimo River Cassidy 064.8 Haslam Creek Storms 063.0 Brenton 061.6 Bush Creek Highway 1 Ladysmith 058.4 Blaineys 056.0 Saltair 054.5 Chemainus 051.2 Chemainus River Osborn Bay 047.5 Westholme 046.8 Mile 46.8 Whitehouse Creek Mount Sicker 046.2 Tyee 044.4 Highway 1 Somenos 042.7 Hayward 041.6 Duncan 039.7 Cowichan River Koksilah 038.1 Koksilah River Mile 37.6 Koksilah Road Cowichan 035.5 Hillbank 034.1 Cobble Hill 031.2 Northgate Road Shawnigan Creek Shawnigan Creek Shawnigan Creek Shawnigan 027.8 Shawnigan Lake Road Strathcona Lodge 026.2 Last Spike Cliffside 025.0 Fitzgerald 021.9 Malahat 020.0 Mile 18.2 17 Mile Post 017.0 Malahat Tunnel Arbutus Canyon Niagara Canyon Niagara 013.7 Goldstream 010.7 Langford 007.9 E&N Trail E&N Trail Six Mile Road Brydon Road Island Highway Adams Place Palmer 004.8 Helmcken Road Island Highway Esquimalt 003.7 Admirals 002.5 Hereward Road Russells 000.8 E&N Roundhouse 000.7 2012 End of Track 000.3 000.0 Victoria Subdivision 0mi This diagram: view talk edit

The Island Corridor, previously the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway (E&N Railway), is a railway operation on Vancouver Island. It is owned by the Island Corridor Foundation, a registered charity. The railway line is 225 kilometres (140 mi) in length from Victoria to Courtenay, known as the Victoria Subdivision, with a branch line from Parksville to Port Alberni, known as the Port Alberni Subdivision, of 64 kilometres (40 mi), for a total 289 kilometres (180 mi) of mainline track. In 2006, the Island Corridor Foundation acquired the railway's ownership from RailAmerica and Canadian Pacific Railway.

Passenger service has been "temporarily suspended" since 2011 due to poor infrastructure condition that resulted from deferred maintenance.^[1]