CNR Norwich Junction

Station Name: Norwich Junction
Subdivision: Burford Otterville
Mileage: 23.01 3.01
Station Symbols: Z ...
Train Order: P P
Office Signals: ... ...
Sidings: ... Yard
Other Tracks: 15 Yard
Yard Limit Signs: 2000 feet East of East Junction Switch
2300 feet West of East Junction Switch		 South to Otterville
North to Burgessville
Location
(Oxford County, North Norwich Township)

Burford Subdivision

Trains may leave without terminal clearance.

Otterville Subdivision

None.

Date Event
1876 BN&PBR railway constructs 8'×14'×8' single storey, frame station with shingle roof on timber foundation[GTR.MD.1907].
1882 GTR constructs freight shed[GTR.MD.1907].
1883 GTR constructs closet[GTR.MD.1907].
1893 GTR constructs 1,020 sq. ft. platform[GTR.MD.1907].
1894 GTR constructs 2,540 sq. ft. platform[GTR.MD.1907].
1896 GTR constructs the following:
  • 34,000 gal water tank[GTR.MD.1907, p. 13];
  • Pump house;
  • Coal platform; and
  • Signalman's cabin.
[GTRS-1907]
1911-06-04/1931-09-27 Day train order office[GTRS.MD.43; GTRS.OL.LDS.2/11; CNR.CR.SWOD.LSD.2/16; CNR.CR.SOD.LSD.21/40].
1911-06-24/1936-09-27 Water and wyeWye is conjecture—appears as "Junction" from 1911-06-04 to 1926-05-02[GTRS.MD.43;GTRS.OL.LDS.2/11; CNR.CR.SWOD.LSD.2/16].[GTRS.MD.43; GTRS,OL.LSD.2/11; CNR.CR.SWOD.LSD.2/16; CNR.CR.SOD.LSD.21/61].
1932-06-26/1965-10-31 Telephone[CNR.CR.SOD.LSD.43/20; CNR.GLR.LA.21/34].
1933-06 Norwich Junction diamond removed and switches at M26.44 and M26.70 "spiked" from Burford Subdivision[Brian West—correspondence].
1934c

Norwich Junction Located on Brantford Tillsonburg Section with physical connection Otterville Subdivision. Presume this station not involved as switching and freight service performed by Brantford Tillsonburg crew. Witt Fertilizer Works located this station with private siding, and handle inbound about fifteen hundred tons phosphate rock from Buffalo per annum and outbound fertilizer about five hundred tons per annum . Motor Trucks handle a large portion of the fertilizer manufactured in this plant to Ontario markets south of Norwich in the tobacco area in the vicinity of LaSalette

[NAC RG30 Vol. 10120 File 6340-29]
1937-04-25 No water or wye[CNR.CR.SOD.LSD.62].
1940c Depot removed[NDA—correspondence].
Date Image Notes
1915c
N&DA 2766.030		 Depot and water tank it the GTR era. Note the faux wainscot paint scheme on depot and the two spouts on the water tank, one for each of the Port Dover-Stratford and Harrisburg-Tilsonburg Jct. lines (Otterville and Burford subdivisions, respectively). It is conjectured that the photograph is taken looking east across the diamond along the Harrisburg-Tilsonburg Jct. line.
1945-09-04 Image Not Available
NAPL A9198-081		 Aerial photograph showing Norwich Jct, Norwich and Norwich East.