Eddy siding, Brewery Creek - Hull, QC
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elyob
N 45° 25.421 W 075° 43.459
18T E 443334 N 5030273
Posted co-ordinates are for four benches on the east side of Brewery Creek.
Waymark Code: WMR6G5
Location: Québec, Canada
Date Posted: 05/16/2016
Views: 8
This bridge over Brewery Creek allowed traffic between the E.B. Eddy mill site and the main lines of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CP).
Since 1997, the siding for the E.B. Eddy mill site connected with the CP immediately north of the Prince of Wales bridge across the Ottawa River. The tracks, still in situ, ran parallel to and south of the Hull Electric Railway (HER). Before 1997, the E.B. Eddy mill siding connected with the CP Waltham subdivision, using a bridge over the tracks that exit the Prince of Wales bridge.
This bridge hosts a single track including guard rails. Immediately west of the bridge is a switch for the siding's own 150 metre passing track. East of the bridge, tracks were twinned for entry into the Eddy mill site but the rails that enter the mill site were removed about 1999. North (upstream) of this bridge, remnants of the bridge for the Hull Electric Railway should still be there.
In the 1960s, a bridge across Brewery Creek hosted two sets of tracks, in addition to the HER crossing. There were six passing or parking sidings immediately west of the bridge. There were three sets of track entering the mill site east of the bridge.
The viewing site is just downstream from the bridge.