Station: | Brighton |
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Subdivision: | Oshawa |
Mileage: | 241.93 |
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 |
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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 Dangerskilling 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 assistanceThe Woodstock Sentinel, Friday, December 9, 1870, p. 2. |
1921-08-23 | G.T.Ry. authorized to build connection to Canadian National Rys. in BrightonB.R.C. 31414. |
1923-08-08 | C.N.Rys. opens connection to Deseronto Subdivision at BrightonNorthern Ontario Railroad Museum & Heritage Centre website. |