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Debden Paddockwood Smeaton White Fox LLYODMINISTER Mervin Glaslyn Meath Park In-Service: rail line that is still in service with a Class 1 or short- Shell Lake Medstead Marshall PRINCE ALBERT line railroad company, and for which no notice of intent to Edam Carrot River discontinue has been entered on the railroad’s 3-year plan. Rabbit Lake Shellbrooke Maidstone Vawn Aylsham Lone Rock Parkside Gronlid Arborfield Ridgedale Leask Zenon Park Macdowell Weldon To Be Discontinued: rail line currently in-service but for which Prince Delmas Marcelin Hagen a notice of intent to discontinue has been entered in the railroad’s St. Louis River Erwood Star City NORTH Hoey Crooked River Hudson Bay current published 3-year plan. Krydor Duck Lake Tisdale Domremy Crystal Springs MELFORT Cutknife Battleford Tway Rockhaven Yellow Creek Speers Laird Sylvania Richard Pathlow Clemenceau Denholm Recent Discontinuance: rail line which has been discontinued Rudell St. Brieux Waldheim Maymont Pleasantdale Weekes within the past 3 years (2006 - 2008). Senlac St. Benedict Adanac Hepburn Hague Unity Radisson Cudworth Lac Vert Evesham Wilkie Middle Lake Macklin Neuanlage Borden Cando Pilger Scott Lake Lenore Abandoned: rail line which has been discontinued / abandoned Primate Osler Reward Dalmeny Prud’homme Denzil Langham Spalding longer than 3 years ago. Note that in some cases the lines were Arelee Warman Vonda Bruno Rose Valley Salvador Landis Humbolt abandoned decades ago; rail beds may no longer be intact. Fosston Endeavor Cactus Lake Asquith St. Gregor Kelvington Handel Watson Biggar Perdue Meacham Hendon Kinley Lady Lake Elstow Okla Ketchen Kelfield Springwater Vanscoy Clavet Colonsay Leroy Viscount Wadena Hazel Dell Sturgis Hyas Norquay Major Ruthilda Delisle Plunkett Kylemore Dodsland Allan Arran Kuroki Tadmore Guernsey Lanigan Margo Pelly Dundurn Invermay Plenty Tessier Zelma Jansen Wynyard Amsterdam Loverna Young Rama Coleville Harris Dafoe Buchanan CATAGORY MILEAGE KILOMETRES % TOTAL Smiley Herschel Watrous Canora Hanley Lockwood Zealandia Veregrin Marengo In-Service 5,115 8,231 58.4% Flaxcomb Bounty Conquest Rosetown Sovereign Netherhill Outlook Insinger Alsask Broderick Kenaston Nokomis Wishart Fiske Milden Brock To Be Discontinued 496 799 5.7% Simpson Theodore Togo Glenside Hawarden Semans Raymore Rhein Wiseton Macrorie Springside Ebenezer Recent Discontinuance 423 680 4.8% Glidden Dinsmore Strongfield Imperial Govan Lestock Jedburg Stornoway Madison Laporte Davidson Kelliher Loreburn Elrose Calder Abandoned 2,727 4,389 31.1% Eston Willowbrook Girvin Liberty Duval Hubbard MacNutt Elbow Otthon Birsay Goodeve Saltcoats Penzance Strasbourg Fenwood Craik Lacadena Leader Lucky Lake Bredenbury Abandoned Rail Lines in Saskatchewan. © 2008 Troy A.M. Zimmer. Holdfast Earl Grey Cupar Dysart Sceptre MELVILLE Churchbridge Lipton Alesbury Southey Demaine Tugaske Lanigan Lancer Kyle Dilke Duff Waldren Mendham Bangor This map is an attempt to document all railway lines, both historic and present, within the of Eyebrow Chamberlain Silton Atwater Balcarres Killaly Grayson Saskatchewan. The rail lines presented here are a combination of railway centre line data from National Brownlee Findlater Craven Yarbo Burnstall Fort Qu’appelle Dubuc Gerald Lemberg Neudorf Esterhazy Topographic Series (NTS) topographic maps and from visible rail beds mapped from medium- or high- Cabri Keeler Bethune Lumsden Stockholm Stewart Marquis resolution satellite imagery. Current status of individual rail lines is based in part on The Saskatchewan Rail Disley Edgeley Pennant Valley Main Tantallon Fox Valley Centre Qu’appelle Tuxford Indian Head Network 2006 map, © 2006 Saskatchewan Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure, and from Notices of Chaplin REGINA Herbert Discontinuance of rail lines received by the Canadian Transportation Agency as of July 2008. ‘To Be Morse Grenfell Hazlet Mortlach Caron Broadview Discontinued’ line status based on Schedule A of the 3-year rail network plans of Canadian National and the Pense Wolseley Belle Plaine Whitewood Waldeck . Please note that although every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of Drinkwater Kronau Wapella Golden Prairie the data presented herein, neither the author nor the Saskatchewan Trails Association are responsible for any Moosomin Shamrock Roleau loss or inconvenience suffered as a result of errors in this map. Suggestions, corrections or additions to the Gray Sedley Glenavon Tompkins Kipling Fleming Gull Lake Francis map data are appreciated, and can be directed to the map author at Email [email protected]. Coderre Wilcox Riceton Claybank Piapot Avonlea Neville Milestone This map was compiled for the Saskatchewan Trails Association for use in trails planning and discussion. Maple Creek Simmie Mossbank Osage Vanguard Lang Fairlight For more information on the association and its activities please visit http://www.sasktrails.ca. Fillmore Maryfield Creelman Parry Ormiston Heward Created on MicroImages TNTmips 2008:v7.4 14 September 2008 La Fleche Crane McTaggart Admiral Cadillac Valley Stoughton North Carlyle Cartography by Troy A.M. Zimmer, B.Sc., Dpl (Hons), MCRSS Shaunavon Griffin Meyronne Forget Arcola Redvers WEYBURN Manor

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