Railway to Churchill, Manitoba, sold — repairs to begin ‘immediately’

From CBC News; August 31, 2018

Repairs on a vital rail link to northern Manitoba are set to begin immediately, the federal government said Friday, following a deal to sell the flood-damaged line leading to the remote town of Churchill.

The community of roughly 1,000 people — Canada’s only deep-water Arctic port — has been without a land route since the railway flooded in May 2017. The closure drove up costs for fuel and food, which had to be brought in by air or ship.

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