CNR Fenelon Falls

Station Name: Fenelon Falls
Subdivision: Haliburton
Mileage: 14.04
Station Symbols: ...
Train Order: D
Office Signals: FA
Sidings: ...Sidings history:
Date Sidings
1914-09-27*/1931-04-26 Passing track indicated but capacity not given.
1934-09-30/1938-04-24 24
*Capacity of sidings/passing tracks does not appear in GTRS time tables before 1915-06-27.
Other Tracks: 27Other Tracks history:
Date Other Tracks
1929-07-28*/1931-04-26 42
1934-09-30/1938-04-24 10
1940-09-29/1942-06-28 33
1943-09-26/1968-10-27 27
*Capacity of other tracks does not appear in CNR time tables before at least 1926-06-27.

Cars placed on team track must be kept back from Lindsay St. public crossing at grade in line with warehouse on each siding of crossing.

Date Event
1882 19'×41' station constructed[GTRS-1907, p. 146].
1976 Station, 19'×57', wood, 14.00, poor, 1083 sq. ft.[Report on the Operation of the Haliburton Subdivision, Year 1976, Statement No. 1, Physical Statistics, p. 2)].
Date Image Notes
1889 Image Not Available
Marina McLennan collection
Station.
n.d.
Unknown
GTRS station from northwest before addition. Note the faux wainscot paint scheme.
  • [lindsayrails Yahoo! group, Fenelon Falls Photo Album]
n.d.
NAC C-24679
GTRS station from northwest after remodelling—note addition of operators bay. It is difficult to tell if the baggage room extension has been constucted.
  • [lindsayrails Yahoo! group, Fenelon Falls Photo Album]
  • [Wilkins-1992, p. 44]
1920c Image Not Available
Marina McLennan collection
Station.
n.d.
Al Paterson photo
CNR station from the northwest sporting its insulbrick sheathing.
1966-04-01
Al Paterson photo
CNR station and freight shed from northwest.
1975 Image Not Available
Beulah Robson collection
Station and freight shed.
1975 Image Not Available
Beulah Robson collection
Station.
1975-04-22 Image Not Available
Keith R. Hansen photo
CNR station and freight shed from northwest.
1975-04-22 Image Not Available
Keith R. Hansen photo
CNR station from northwest.
1975-04-22 Image Not Available
Keith R. Hansen photo
Feed mill looking north.
1980-02-13 Image Not Available
Steve Lucas photo
CNR station from south.
1976
Steve Lucas photo
Interior view of waiting room windows—note rectangular trim on arched-top windows.
  • [lindsayrails Yahoo! group, Haliburton Sub Photo Album]
1977-07-23
Steve Lucas photo
CNR station from northwest.
  • [lindsayrails Yahoo! group, Haliburton Sub Photo Album]
1977-07-23
Steve Lucas photo
CNR station from southwest.
  • [lindsayrails Yahoo! group, Haliburton Sub Photo Album]
1977-07-23
Steve Lucas photo
CNR station from southeast.
  • [lindsayrails Yahoo! group, Haliburton Sub Photo Album]
1977-07-24
Steve Lucas photo
CNR freight shed from northwest.
  • [lindsayrails Yahoo! group, Haliburton Sub Photo Album]
1981-06
Gene Burles photo
CNR station from southwest—photo appears to be incorrectly dates since tracks are removed.
1983-08
Gene Burles photo
CNR station from southwest.
1983-08
Gene Burles photo
CNR station from northwest.
1996
Steve Lucas photo
Restored station from west.
  • [lindsayrails Yahoo! group, Haliburton Sub Photo Album]
1996
Steve Lucas photo
Restored station from southeast.
  • [lindsayrails Yahoo! group, Haliburton Sub Photo Album]
Date Reference Railway Subject Description
1953-06 [Hansen-1997, p. 279] CNR Track plan. Trackage south of river.
1953-06 [Hansen-1997, p. 280] CNR Track plan. Trackage north of river.
1974c O-SHO-ME Plan No. 240 CNR Station. ElevationsThe O-SHO-ME drawing states most likely board-and-batten siding underneath the insulbrick, which is incorrect as photographs before and after the addition of the operators bay show horizontal siding.