About Railway Relic Caches
This cache belongs to the Railway Relic series. It is a series of caches to recognize the history and heritage of the Newfoundland railway, and to demonstrate that if you look hard enough, there are remnants to be found and explored.
Railway Relic caches are intended to provide quick cache-and-dashes, but also more difficult hides, all with reasonable access from the railbeds. A bookmark list of Railway Relic caches can be found at https://coord.info/BMBG3CX
About Railway Relic - Site of Brigus Station
The 'cut off' branch line from Brigus Junction to Carbonear, contracted in 1897 with R.G. Reid, shortened the route by not having to change trains at Whitbourne for Harbour Grace. Work began on the Brigus branch in, May 1898. A variety of job opportunities opened for the men of the area including the maintenance section crews. The station at Brigus was closed by 30 April 1972 and on 27 July The Compass reports the station was being torn down. Area residents then used the train service at Clarke's Beach until the Brigus branch closed. The last train ran on 20 September 1984.
Hiding a Railway Relic Cache
Why not place your own Railway Relic cache? It's easy, and a great introduction to hiding caches! All you need is a container (you can use whatever you like, as long as it's waterproof!) a log, a pencil, and a location of a railway relic! Hey, maybe the series will spread across the province or to defunct railways across the country!
Tell us about your Cache
You MUST e-mail us to let us know when your Cache has been published, then we can ensure the bookmark lists are updated quickly.
Naming your Cache
When naming your Cache, please use the following convention; "Railway Relic - Cache/Relic Name".
Following this naming ensures that we can pick up your cache into our stats, and helps other users to search for Railway Relic caches too. Caches which don't meet the guidelines below will unfortunately not be eligible to join the series bookmark lists.
i.e.
- Railway Relic is two words, with one space, capital R and R
- Follow this with (space)-(space)
- Follow the hyphen with the name of the cache or relic
- Example naming convention: Railway Relic - Brigus Junction (http://coord.info/GC9Z3MD)
Caches at former railway stations can alternately be published as a part of the British SideTracked Series, the inspiration for this series. Information for that series can be found at; https://www.sidetrackedseries.info
Railway Relic Series page information
(Block, Copy & Paste the entire Description of this cache)
You will then have to update the second section, Railway Relic - 'Your Cache', inserting the name of your cache, the description and add any photos.