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5 unusual facts about Corner Brook


CFGN

Currently, in the daytime, CFGN serves as a repeater to CFSX and at night serves as a repeater to CFCB in Corner Brook.

CFSX

CFSX operates as a daytime station, and serves as a nighttime repeater to CFCB in Corner Brook.

Corner Brook

Route 1, the Trans-Canada Highway, passes the south side of the city on a high ridge before descending to the east, into the Humber Valley.

GMD NF210

One of the preserved locomotives number 931, located in Corner Brook still has its diesel engine intact, all of the others had their engines removed prior to being put on display.

Royal Newfoundland Constabulary

It provides policing to the communities of St. John's and the Northeast Avalon Peninsula, Corner Brook, Churchill Falls, and Labrador City.


Grand Falls-Windsor

On the other hand, the town is slightly over two hours east of Deer Lake, two hours and forty-five minutes east of Corner Brook and close to five hours east of Port Aux Basques, when traveling on the Newfoundland and Labrador Route 1, part of the Trans-Canada Highway.

Humber Valley

The valley ends at the eastern end of Corner Brook where the river discharges into the Bay of Islands at the appropriately named "Humbermouth".

Terra Transport

With the demise of the Caribou, the only passenger services remaining on the island were mixed freight and passenger trains on the Bonavista, Carbonear, and Argentia branch lines, and on the main-line between Bishop's Falls and Corner Brook.


see also

C-QUAM

Among those stations are CFCB/570: Corner Brook, NL; CFCO/630: Chatham, Ontario (covering SW Ontario, Eastern Michigan and Northern Ohio); WLS/890 (now during both day and night hours): Chicago, Illinois; WNMB/900: North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; WBLQ/1230: Westerly, Rhode Island; WIRY/1340: Plattsburgh, New York; WAXB/850: Ridgefield, Connecticut; and WLAD/800: Danbury, Connecticut.

VOY

Voy's Beach, an Alaskan settlement located northwest of Corner Brook