Bell's Crossing

Construction Date:  1908

Origins:
On the McFadden farm

Features:

• Abandoned in favour of a trestle overpass for vehicle traffic
  
• Bell Crossing was an important crossing over the C.N. Main Line on the main road between Brandon and Rivers. The site is visible alongside the modern overpass.
• Because of the curve as the tracks bend towards Grant’s Cut and the crossing of the Little Saskatchewan River, a battery-operated bell alerted drivers that a train was coming.
  
• In 1937, the town applied to the railway commissioners for an overhead bridge at Bell Crossing
  
• C.J. Collingwood – first car across