Station: | Richmond Hill | ||||
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Subdivision: | Bala | ||||
Mileage: | 21.23 | ||||
Symbols: | WZ | ||||
Train Order: | DN | ||||
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Office Signals: | RH | ||||
Sidings: | 93 (M21.18 to M22.05) | ||||
Other Tracks: | 44 | ||||
Yard Limit Boards: | 5,383 feet south of station 7,110 feet north of station |
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Location: | Richmond Hill (York County, Markham Township) |
Date | Event |
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1927-08/1927-12 | C.N.Rys. renovates station to add agent living quarters NAC/NMC 096855. |
1936-04-09 | In the pre-dawn hours, sometime around 6 a.m., of April 9, 1936 two heavily-loaded cars of a [southbound] C.N.Rys. freight train derailed and plunged over a 15-foot embankment on the main line south of Richmond Hill station. The Liberal (Richmond Hill), Tragic story didn't mesh with reality of derailment, Andrew Hind April 6, 2004, |
1952c/1954c | C.N.Rys. adds new baggage/express room by enclosing porte-cochère on south end of stationphotographs. The former baggage room is converted to a conductor's roomspeculation. |
1953-01-09 | Conductor of northbound freight narrowly missed by gunshotThe Globe and Mail (Toronto), Saturday, January 10, 1953, p. 4. |
Date | Image | Notes |
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n.d. |
Image Not Available Andrew Merrilees Collection/ NAC / PA-185937 |
Station. |
1910c |
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C.No.Ry. station, freight shed and water tower looking north. |
1910c |
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C.No.Ry. station and freight shed looking northwest. Flat car is James Bay Railway 23173. Reporting marks on gondola car obscured. Man seated on gondola car is identified as John Sheardown. |
1951-05-13 |
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Rear view of C.N.Rys. station looking northeast. The 1927 kitchen addition is visible on the left. Photograph appears in Sauriol-1984, p. 59 |
1955-04-13 |
![]() Canadian Historical Photo Collection / J. V. Salmon Collection / TRL / Acc. S 1-2695 |
South and east elevations of C.N.Rys. station. The porte-cochère on the south end has been enclosed and converted to an express/baggage room. The door to the former baggage room north of the operator's bay window has been replaced with clapboard siding and a single door to, perhaps, the conductor's room. |
Date | Reference | Railway | Subject | Description |
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1927-03 | NAC/NMC 096855 | C.N.Rys. | Existing station. | Plan. Elevation. Section. The plan indicates that it was also the residence for agent and includes a parlor, living room, two bedrooms and a 10'×12' kitchen addition on the west (rear) side. Rennovation work began in August 1927 and was completed by December 1927 at a cost of $2,120.17. |