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 - Makinsons Station
When the railway was built to Harbour Grace via Whitbourne in the 1880s, the rough roads into the country from Clarke's Beach, Cupids, and Brigus were extended to provide access to the railway at Hodgewater Pond and Whitbourne. The various country roads met at Goulds, roughly at the centre of what was to become the community of Makinsons.
The Hodgewater Line was soon settled, largely by farmers who sold ther produce to Brigus and other communities in Conception Bay or shipped it to St John's via the railway. When the Brigus branch railway was built in 1898, the place where it crossed Hodgewater Line became a station stop, known as Makinsons. This is the first association of the name Makinsons with a particular locality in the area. (ln the 1860s a George Makinson had purchased a large tract of land extending from Brigus to Goulds from a Brigus merchant, Charles Cozens who had named it Cochranedale.)
Avalon Ready Mix, formerly Dawe's Concrete Products, located their concrete plant here to be adjacent to the Makinsons railway station and has since expanded to occupy the entire site. They used a private siding to facilitate bulk cement deliveries from the North Star Cement production facility at Corner Brook and to ship their molded concrete block products.
Dawe's old freight shed (built with decorative concrete block) is a relic of the railway days.
(Alice Byrne operated a shop only a few feet from the railway station. The mail would come on the train and residents nearby would visit her shop to collect their mail.)
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.