General

Station Name: Vandorf
Subdivision: Bala
Mileage: 30.99
Station Symbols: ... Train Order history:
Date Office Signals Train Order
1910-09-18 NF ...
1914-10-19/1926-01-03 ... ...
1926-05-02/1929-06-30 DF N
1929-07-28/1930-04-27 * T
1930-06-29/1938-09-11 ...
1938-09-25/1951-06-24 P
1951-08-26/1954-09-26 DF P
1955-04-24 DF D
1955-06-26/1957-10-27 DF DN
1958-12-07/1961-10-29 DF P
*Office Signals not listed in time tables from 1929-07-28 to 1951-06-24.
Train Order: P Sidings history:
Date Sidings
1914-10-19*/1922-10-08 39
1923-05-13/1923-09-30 38
1924-01-06/1927-09-25 75
1928-05-20/1928-09-30 77
1929-01-06/1939-07-02 74
1939-09-24/1943-06-27 71
1943-07-18/1956-09-30 68
1957-04-28/1961-10-29 ...
*Capacity of sidings does not appear in CNOR time tables before at least 1914-10-19.
Office Signals: DF Other Tracks history:
Date Other Tracks
1919-06-01/1952-09-28 ...
1953-04-26/1956-09-30 5
1957-04-28/1961-10-29 N.9
Sidings: 68 (mileage 30.92 to 31.59, east of main)
Other Tracks: 5 (mileage unknown)
Location:
Vandorf
(York County, Whitchurch Township)

Footnotes

None.

Chronology

Date Event
1926-05-02 Train order office open[CNR.CR.NOD.16/32].
1930-06-29 Train order office closed[CNR.CR.NOD.33/10].
1955-04-24 Train order office open[CNR.CR.NOD.11/19].
1957-04-28 Siding removed; a new 100-car siding constructed at Quaker, mile 26.5 became operational 1956-09-30 eventually rendering the Vandorf siding redundant[CNR.CR.NOD.16].
1958-12-07 Train order office closed permanently[CNR.CR.NOD.22/28; CNR.GLR.NOA.29/32].

Photographs

Date Image Notes
1911c Image Not Available
Whitchurch-Stouffville Museum		 CNOR station.

Drawings

Date Reference Railway Subject Description