| Feature Type: | Railway Point - A named railway siding, junction, flag stop or timing point with or without an agent. |
| Status: | Not official |
| Relative Location: | On CPR just N of junction of Saugum Creek and Kootenay River, NW of Fort Steele, N of Cranbrook, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°41'24"N, 115°41'09"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82G/12 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Doyle (station) adopted 17 January 1951 on Columbia River Basin manuscript 56, as labelled on BC map 1EM, 1915, and on BC map 4C,1936. Rescinded 27 July 1964 on 82G/NW. Doyle (railway point) reinstated for information purposes 2 February 1987 on 82G/12. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Not listed in CPR Freight timetables from 1942 onward; former flag stop listed with "nil" car capacity in CPR timetable 92, 24 April 1960; not listed in CPR timetable 96, 20 April 1962 onward. Name reinstated for information purposes after receiving advice and map from P.D. Gilmore, superintendent, CPR, that effective June 1986 this is a timing point. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Refers to Alfred Doyle, Fort Steele miner, blacksmith, liveryman and rancher, who came to the district in the 1890s. Source: Provincial Archives' Place Names File (the "Harvey File") compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions |