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VANCOUVER — The federal government, CN Rail and the body that oversees trade through Canada’s busiest port have signed an agreement allowing CN to twin part of an existing railway track to move more cargo and increase trade through Vancouver’s harbour.

CN says the project is part of a long-term strategy to double-track a four-kilometre section of rail that links expanding import and export terminals on the south shore of Burrard Inlet to the company’s national network.

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The four-kilometre single-line stretch is part of the line from the waterfront through Strathcona to the Glen work rail yard in the False Creek Flats, then gets funnelled through the Grandview Cut. Most of it is already twin tracked.

The stretch to be doubled is 4.2 kilometres from Powell Street at the northern port end, down to Nanaimo Street.

Two years ago, Canadian National Railway increased traffic on the Burrard Inlet Line to up to six trains a day.