Which of the following stations is part of Trans-Canadian Railways?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Sydney
The Trans-Canadian Railway is a 7,050 km line built in 1886 across Canada. It runs from Halifax on the Atlantic coast to Vancouver on the Pacific coast, through Montreal, Ottawa, Winnipeg and Calgary. The map of this railway also marks Sydney at its eastern end, beside Halifax. This Sydney is a town on Canada’s Atlantic coast, not the city in Australia.
The other three names belong to other long railways. St. Petersburg and Chita lie on the Trans-Siberian Railway in Russia, and Perth is the western end of the Australian Trans-Continental Railway, which runs from Perth to the Australian Sydney.
Tip: Sydney is printed only on the map of the Trans-Canadian Railway, not in the text. Go through the route maps of the chapter as carefully as the text; NTA takes names from them.
NCERT (2025-26): “Trans–Canadian Railways This 7,050 km long rail-line in Canada runs from Halifax in the east to Vancouver on the Pacific Coast passing through Montreal, Ottawa, Winnipeg and Calgary (Fig. 7.6). It was constructed in 1886, initially as part of an agreement to make British Columbia on the west coast join the Federation of States. Later on, it gained economic significance because it connected the Quebec-Montreal Industrial Region with the wheat belt of the Prairie Region and the Coniferous Forest region in the north. Thus each of these regions became complementary to the other.…”
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