Ernestown railway station in Loyalist, Ontario, Canada is a Heritage Railway Station, also protected under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act.
Ernestown | |||||||||||
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General information | |||||||||||
Location | Canada | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 44°13′02″N 76°45′17″W / 44.21722°N 76.75472°W | ||||||||||
Construction | |||||||||||
Structure type | Historic railway station | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | 1855 | ||||||||||
Closed | circa 1973 | ||||||||||
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Official name | Former Grand Trunk Railway Station | ||||||||||
Designated | 1992 | ||||||||||
Reference no. | 4551 | ||||||||||
Official name | Ernestown Railway Station | ||||||||||
Designated | January 11, 1999 |
History
editThe Ontario Heritage Act designation notes that the station is "one of only nine first-generation Grand Trunk Stations surviving of thirty-four stations built along the line in an Italianate style that had already become associated with railway buildings in Britain in the 1840s".[1]
References
edit- ^ "BY-LAW NO. 99-1". The Corporation of Loyalist Township. 1999. Retrieved April 9, 2018.