page_title: Grand Bay-Westfield
section_title: Rail
hierarchical_section_title: Grand Bay-Westfield / Transportation / Rail
caption_attribution_description: English: Spring Freshet and Ice Break Up, Railway Tracks, Westfield, New Brunswick, Canada.
context_page_description: Grand Bay-Westfield is an incorporated town in the western part of Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada. The town borders Saint John on its northwestern boundary.
  The town is an amalgamation of the original town of Grand Bay and the neighbouring village of Westfield immediately to the north.
  Grand Bay-Westfield is situated on the west bank of the Saint John River immediately north of the boundary between Kings County and Saint John County. The town is a suburb of the city of Saint John and its population is split with 3,405 residents in the Grand Bay neighbourhood and 1,544 located in Westfield.
  Many residents of Grand Bay-Westfield find employment in Saint John; many are tradespeople who work at the Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station, or the Coleson Cove Generating Station, as well as various J.D. Irving Limited pulp and paper factories and the Moosehead brewery - all located on the west side of the city.
context_section_description: In 1869 the European and North American Railway Western Extension was opened through the area between Saint John and Vanceboro, Maine.  The rail line changed ownership to the New Brunswick Railway before becoming part of the Canadian Pacific Railway mainline from Saint John to Montreal in the 1880s.  CPR established several stations through the area (Grand Bay, Pamdenec, Epworth Park, Ingleside, Ononette, Hillandale, Westfield Beach, Lingley, Sagwa, and Nerepis).  The rail line was sold in 1995 and is now operated as the New Brunswick Southern Railway.
caption: Ice break-up on tracks at Westfield, 1936
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