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The National Transcontinental Railway was 1804.7 miles in length, from Moncton, New Brunswick to Winnipeg, Manitoba . The last spike of the NTR was driven at Grant on November 17 , 1913 , 1,283.2 miles west of Moncton. The town of Grant lost its importance as a railway divisional point following the 1924 completion of the Longlac-Nakina Cut-Off , a section of Canadian National Railways main line connecting the Canadian Northern and the National Transcontinental Railway . At that time most of the buildings were removed to the new divisional point at Nakina at Mile 15.9 of the former Grant Sub-Division. That portion of the former NTR from Hearst to Nakina , became the Pagwa Sub-Division. By 1960, this section track was part of a marginal secondary main line, with little in the way of through freight, or passenger traffic. A 122-mile section of this line between Nakina and Calstock , the route through Grant was abandoned in 1986. |
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