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Windsor station (Michigan Central Railroad)

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Coordinates: 42°18′05″N 83°02′42″W / 42.301283°N 83.045022°W / 42.301283; -83.045022
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For other stations with similar names, see Michigan Central Railroad Depot.
Windsor, ON
Windsor in 1974
General information
Location1300 Pelletier Street, Windsor, Ontario
Canada
Coordinates42°18′05″N 83°02′42″W / 42.301283°N 83.045022°W / 42.301283; -83.045022
Owned byCanada Southern Railway
Line(s)Canadian Pacific Railway
Platforms1 island platform later 1 side platform
Tracks2
Other information
StatusDestroyed by fire (1996)
History
Opened1911
Closed1979
Former services
Preceding station New York Central Railroad Following station
Detroit
toward Chicago
 Michigan Central Railroad
Main Line
 Maidstone
toward Buffalo
Preceding station Amtrak Following station
Detroit (Michigan Central)
Terminus
 Niagara Rainbow
1974–1979
 St. Thomas
toward New York (Grand Central)

Windsor was a train station in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The station was built by the Michigan Central Railroad in 1911 and subsequently controlled by the Canada Southern Railway. The station served Canada Southern Railway and New York Central trains. Windsor also has another railroad station in town.

Through most of its decades, and into the latter 1960s, the station served New York Central passenger trains over a New York–Buffalo–Windsor–Detroit–Jackson–Chicago route: the Empire State Express and the Wolverine.[1] It also served trains bound for a slightly more northerly route east: to London, Toronto and Montreal: the New York Central-Canadian Pacific pooled train, the Canadian (later renamed the Canadian-Niagara).[2]

The last train service to this station was Amtrak's Niagara Rainbow from October 1978 to January 31, 1979.[3] The building was burnt to the ground in 1996 due to arson.[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ New York Central timetable, June 17, 1951, Table 1, 2, 7, 15 http://streamlinermemories.info/NYC/NYC51-6TT.pdf
  2. ^ New York Central Timetable, 1947, Table 29 http://streamlinermemories.info/NYC/NYC47-12TT.pdf
  3. ^ "Windsor, Ontario, Canada". trainweb.org. Retrieved January 2, 2019.
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