Construction began on the Newfoundland railway in 1881, and the track was completed from St. John's to Port aux Basques in 1898.

The Newfoundland Railway was not merely a convenient route to the middle of nowhere.

The labour force of Newfoundland and Labrador is now more highly diversified than is usually realized.

After rejecting Confederation with Canada in 1869, railway construction was championed in Newfoundland as the 'work of a country.'

The Railway Settlement Act and the Newfoundland Government Railway (1920-49)--Society--Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web

Although the main line was itself a signal feat of engineering and political optimism, branch lines were also integral to the Newfoundland railway.

The Newfoundland Railway linked not only opened up the western interior of the island, but also provided a link between Newfoundland and Canada

The Newfoundland railway impacted the province economically, socially, and politically.

The history of the railway: The construction period, the Reid family, the Government of Newfoundland, Canadian National Railways, and TerraTransport.

Operations of the Newfoundland railway and the types of equipment that was required.

It was anticipated from the first that the railway would transform Newfoundland and its society as a whole.

On the completion of the railway line, there was an attempt to consolidate and expand coastal steamship services in Newfoundland and Labrador...

The first telegraph system in Newfoundland was established as part and parcel of a scheme to land a trans-atlantic telegraph cable in Newfoundland.

The Newfoundland railway operated for a little over a century. From 1882-97 the trains ran over completed portions of a projected trans-insular line.

Few issues surrounding the Newfoundland Railway attracted as much controversy as the lands grants made under various construction contracts...

In 1911 P.T. McGrath wrote of the Reid Newfoundland Company that it was 'the biggest paymaster in the Island, bigger even than the government.'

Advances in transportation during the late 1800s and the early 1900s affected the development of the forestry and mining industries in Newfoundland and Labrador.

For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, Newfoundland governments were deeply concerned about economic development.

This article is about the Newfoundland Railway and the politics of it's development from 1897-1914.

About the Railway Station in Western Bay, NL, a Registered Heritage Structure built around 1914 and serving also as the post office, and the interpretation centre.