Grimsby station (Via Rail)
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| Location | 99 Ontario Street Grimsby, Ontario Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 43°11′45″N 79°33′28″W / 43.19583°N 79.55778°W | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Via Rail | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Shelter | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parking | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1902 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | Late 1990s | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Grimsby station is a railway station in Grimsby, Ontario, Canada. It is served by the Maple Leaf train between Toronto and New York City.
The Maple Leaf is a joint Amtrak–Via Rail service: ticketing is shared, and trains consist of Amtrak equipment but are operated on the Toronto–Niagara Falls portion of the route by Via crews. The station was formerly served by additional Via trains operating as part of Corridor services, but these were discontinued in 2012.
The station is an accessible, unstaffed, but heated shelter beside the tracks replaced a small wooden shed. Parking is free.
History[edit]
Original station (1853)[edit]
The original Great Western Railway station, built in 1853, was moved further back from the tracks in the late 1800s,[1] is unoccupied as of early 2021 and was most recently used by the Fork Road Pottery from 1997 until 2018.[2][3] It had also been used previously as a fruit depot and meat packing depot.
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Original GWR station in 1855 -
Original GWR station in December 2020
Other buildings[edit]
The second GWR station burned down in 1900 and was replaced by a third in 1902.[4] That historic railway station building had two towers and was destroyed by an electrical fire in 1994. That building was concurrently in use as a restaurant between 1979 and 1994.[5] The current Via Rail shelter was built in the 1990s.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Ontario Railway Stations - Grimsby". canada-rail.com. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
- ^ "About Us". Forks Road Pottery. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
After selling the Forks Road Pottery location in Grimsby in 2018, [the owners] have relocated to Port Colborne
- ^ "About Us". Forks Road Pottery (archive). September 4, 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-09-04. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
in 1997 moved operations to Grimsby's Great Western Railway Station in Grimsby
- ^ Smith, Jeffrey P. "Station: Grimsby". C.N.Rys. Ontario Stations. Retrieved December 10, 2014.
- ^ "Canadian National Railways Station, Grimsby, Ontario - RSR-218". Railway Station Report. Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. Retrieved December 10, 2014.
External links[edit]
Media related to Grimsby railway station at Wikimedia Commons