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of Messrs. J. Harrison & Co.'s flour store, the "station" consisting of a small building just of sufficient size to provide an office for the ticket agent, and this building served the purpose of a station during the ensuing summer. The train ran across the mill pond (near Harris & Allan's foundry) on a trestle and proceeded up the marsh as far as the present site of the iron bridge, half a mile or so beyond the present Coldbrook station. The iron bridge was then in course of construction and the train could not proceed further. In fact, this was the terminus of the E. & N. A. R. during the ensuing summer, or a great portion of it, as beyond this there were heavy works in course of construction, such as the long, high trestle bridge over the marsh at what is now known as Brookville, and the very heavy work at Lawlor's Lake which was very tedious and often very discouraging. As mentioned, this point continued to be the terminus for some time, but even that was considered to be a convenience to the then handful of summer residents at the Kennebecasis, near the Nine Mile House, the district not being known as "Rothesay" until the year afterwards, when the visit of the Prince of Wales was the occasion of it receiving that name. There was little saved in the distance by taking the train at the iron bridge to town, as it was about half way between St. John and the Nine Mile House, and driving down in the morning and driving the carriage back to the Kennebecasis and driving down again in the afternoon to meet the train was about the same thing as driving into town in the morning and driving back again in the afternoon, but it avoided the trouble and expense of putting up the horse and carriage in town and the "summer residents" enjoyed a railway ride however brief, and the servant instead of staying in town was able to do some work in the garden