High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Southern Railway of Vancouver Island (reporting mark SVI), formerly the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway, is a short line railway in British Columbia, Canada. It runs from Victoria to Courtenay, with branch lines from Parksville to Port Alberni and from just south of Nanaimo to the SVI's main railyard and car float slip (dock) on the Nanaimo waterfront. The line is owned by the Island Corridor Foundation and operated under contract by SVI. The SVI is one of two remaining railways over 160 kilometres (99 mi) in length on Vancouver Island. Until 1996, it was called the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway (reporting mark EN). It then spent three years as E and N Railfreight, an internal short line within then owner Canadian Pacific Railway.