Gananoque station
Gananoque | |||||||||||||
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 Gananoque station in 1982 | |||||||||||||
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| Location | North Station Road Gananoque, Ontario Canada | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 44°22′08″N 76°09′13″W / 44.36889°N 76.15361°W | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform, 1 island platform | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Shelter | ||||||||||||
| Parking | Short term only | ||||||||||||
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| Website | Gananoque train station | ||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1915 | ||||||||||||
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Gananoque railway station in Gananoque, Ontario, Canada is served by Via Rail trains running from Toronto to Ottawa. The station is an unstaffed, heated shelter.
History
[edit]Gananoque Junction was originally served by two railways: the Grand Trunk Montréal-Toronto mainline and the Thousand Islands Railway, an 8-kilometre (5.0 mi) short line railway that led to the waterfront. A mainline station also once existed in Lansdowne but was torn down soon after CN abandoned service to the village, in 1966.[1]
The rail junction was relocated to the current station location in 1901 while timber shipments to Gananoque's docks were declining and tourism on the line was growing, with the Thousand Islands heavily promoted as a vacation destination by rail and steamship. Unlike most stations of its era, Gananoque Junction had no freight-handling facility and was solely a passenger station.[2]
The last passengers transferred from CN to the Thousand Island Railway at Gananoque Junction in 1962. The short line's tracks are now gone.
While the junction station remains in service, a huge water tank that towered over Gananoque Junction in the steam train era is now gone.[3] Locomotive #500 from the now-defunct short line operation is on display next to Gananoque town hall; the Arthur Child Heritage Museum occupies the site of the former Gananoque waterfront station.
Services
[edit]Gananoque station is only served by local trains on Via Rail's Toronto-Ottawa route. Most Toronto-Ottawa trains and all Toronto-Montreal trains pass through the station without stopping.
As of October 2023 the station is served by one to two trains per day toward Ottawa, and two trains per day toward Toronto.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Walking Tour of Lansdowne". Leeds & 1000 Islands Historical Society. Archived from the original on February 20, 2014. Retrieved May 28, 2014.
- ^ "Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, Railway Station Report: VIA Rail/Canadian National Railways Station, Gananoque Junction, Ontario". C.N.Ry. in Ontario.
- ^ "Gananoque. Ontario (.... - ....)". Canadian Directory of Water Towers and Standpipes.
- ^ "Timetables". Via Rail Canada. Retrieved October 19, 2023.