25 January 2006
CPR Operating Point Named in Honour of the Late Dr. Gordon Woodman
Revelstoke - The Canadian Pacific Railway has named an operating point at Mile 124.1 in the
Mountain Subdivision after the late Dr. Gordon Woodman who died after being struck by a police car on the then-icy eastern
overpass leading to the city's eastern access.
An e-mail from Bob Eley said the new railway timetables note that the new Woodman operating point is closest to the spot
where the United Church missionary doctor was struck and mortally injured in December, 2004. "This is the location where the yard
lead diverges from the south track at the east end of (the) Revelstoke yard," Eley's e-mail said.
This is not the first time the CPR has named an operating point in someone's honour.
The e-mail message noted that the eastern control point for the Revelstoke terminal remains the double crossover at 123.4
of the Mountain Sub. That location is called White" after a former Revelstoke conductor, Jack White, who later became
Superintendant of the CP Revelstoke Division and later General Manager of the CP Pacific Region."
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