Date: May 22, 2020
Certificate Number: 14002-2
Certificate of Fitness issued to Knob Lake & Timmins Railway Company Inc. by the Canadian Transportation Agency (Agency) pursuant to subsections 92(1) and 92(2) of the Canada Transportation Act, SC 1996, c 10 (CTA), which permits Knob Lake & Timmins Railway Company Inc. (KLTR) to operate a railway in Canada over the mileage points for which it applied, and on the lines of other railway companies as set out below:
- by virtue of consensual running rights, to operate:
- over the line of Labrador Iron Mines Railway from Knob Lake Junction to the border of the province of Quebec, at mileages 0.00 to 5.525 of the Timmins Subdivision, in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
- by virtue of consensual running rights, to operate:
- over the line of Kérail Inc. from the border between the provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador and Quebec, at mileages 5.525 to 15.40 of the Timmins Subdivision, in the province of Quebec; and,
- by virtue of consensual running rights, to operate:
- over the line of Tata Iron Mines Railway from the border between the provinces of Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador, at mileages 15.40 to 15.497 of the Timmins Subdivision, in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
As per Schedule IV of the CTA, KLTR is authorized to operate a railway, which includes the carriage, per calendar year, of:
- less than 4,000 tonnes of toxic inhalation hazard materials; and
- other dangerous goods, other than crude oil, as defined in section 2 of the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act, 1992, SC 1992, c 34.
KLTR cannot carry crude oil until it establishes to the Agency’s satisfaction that it meets the related statutory insurance requirements.
