General

Station: CPR (GB&SR) crossing
Subdivision: Newmarket
Mileage: 88.9
Location: (Ontario County, Mara Township)

Footnotes

1925[CNR CR SWOD AD 9, p. 8]

Canadian Pacific Ry. crossing; Interlocked.

Chronology

Date Event
1905-04 GB&SR incorporated[Wilson-1983, p. 166].
1910-01-01 GB&SR leased to CPR[Wilson-1983, p. 166].
1910-05 Construction contract let to Toronto Construction Company for Coldwater to Atherley Junction[Wilson-1983, pp. 160 & 166].
1911-04-14 Track laying reaches Orillia from Coldwater[Wilson-1983, p. 161].
1911-10-18 Track laying reaches Atherley Junction from Orillia[Wilson-1983, p. 161].
1911-12-15 CPR opens from Coldwater Junction to Atherley Junction[Wilson-1983, pp. 161 & 166].
1912-05-04 CPR opens from Atherley Junction to Bethany Junction[Wilson-1983, pp. 161 & 166].
1932-12 CPR operates last passenger train between Port McNicoll and Havelock; mixed freight and "grain extra" service maintained during Great Depression[Wilson-1983, p. 247].
1937-09-07 CPR abandons Orillia to Lindsay[Andreae-1997, p. 135; Wilson-1983, p. 247].
1938 CPR lifts rails between Orillia and Lindsay[Wilson-1983, p. 247].

Photographs

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