Dundas station (Dundas, Ontario)
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| Location | Dundas, Ontario Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 43°16′22″N 79°58′28″W / 43.27278°N 79.97444°W | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Connections | Canada Coach Lines[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Status | Building demolished | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1864 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Closed | 1990 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dundas station was a passenger station in Dundas, Ontario, Canada. It was located halfway up the Niagara Escarpment west of downtown Dundas,[2] near where Hamilton Regional Road 8 (formerly Ontario Highway 8) crosses under the railway tracks.
History
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The Great Western Railway (GWR) put their line through Dundas in 1853, but it wasn't until 1864 that the first station was built.[3] They amalgamated with the Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) in 1882,[4] who constructed a new station building in 1904 and double tracked the line.[3] The GTR was absorbed by the Canadian National Railway (CNR) in 1923. Via Rail continued to provide passenger train service to the station from 1977 until the mid 1980s. A fire seriously damaged the station in 1984 and it was decided to move the historic structure to a more suitable site. The building collapsed while it was being dismantled and it could not be saved.[3] The VIA/Amtrak International continued to stop until it was rerouted in 1990. A restricted fire access route from Highway 8 is the only reminder of a railway station in the area.
References
[edit]- ^ "Canada Coach Lines, 1963 GMDD SDM-4502". Trains & Trams. Michael Taylor. Retrieved June 25, 2017.
CCL provided a shuttle service for rail passengers between Dundas and downtown Hamilton.
- ^ "The Valley Town. Dundas (1780 - 2007)". Ontario Architecture Website. Retrieved June 25, 2017.
The rail station in Dundas was located half way up the escarpment, quite a distance from the downtown area
- ^ a b c Stan Nowak (July 16, 2004). "Dundas' Grand Trunk Station". Dundas Star News. Archived from the original on May 11, 2006. Retrieved May 1, 2015.
- ^ Emily Bergen. "History of the Great Western Railway" (PDF). Local History. St. Thomas Public Library. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 24, 2015. Retrieved June 25, 2017.
12 August 1882: The official amalgamation of the Great Western with the Grand Trunk occurs.
External links
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Media related to Dundas, Ontario railway station at Wikimedia Commons
- Jeffrey P. Smith. "C.N.Rys. Dundas". C.N.Rys. Ontario Stations. Retrieved June 25, 2017.
- Dundas' Grand Trunk Station
- Dundas Train Crash, Christmas 1934