CNR Brighton

Station Name: Brighton
Subdivision: Oshawa
Mileage: 241.93
Station Symbols: WX
Train Order: DN
Office Signals: GN
Sidings: 87 (Eastward Track)
89 (Westward Track)
Other Tracks: Yard
Location:
Brighton
(County, Township)
HSMBC Report: RSR-91
Designation / Year:

*No. 19 Flag stop at Brighton ... Sundays.

Date Event
1870-12-03 Freight train no. 15, failing to receives orders to meet no. 10—the Merchant Express—at Brighton, collides head-on with the latter four miles west of the station at the Dangers killing 3, destroying 18 cars and two locomotives. R.W. Ward, station agent at Brighton, had been working for 9 consecutive days and nights after the former station agent as arrested for embezzlement despite repeated requests to the Toronto office for assistance[The Woodstock Sentinel, Friday, December 9, 1870, p. 2].
1921-08-23 G.T.R. authorized to build connection to Canadian National Rys. in Brighton[BRC Order 31414].
1923-08-08 CNR opens connection to Deseronto Subdivision at Brighton[Northern Ontario Railroad Museum & Heritage Centre website].