Windsor station (Michigan Central Railroad)
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.
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 Windsor in 1974 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | 1300 Pelletier Street, Windsor, Ontario Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 42°18′05″N 83°02′42″W / 42.301283°N 83.045022°W | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Canada Southern Railway | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Canadian Pacific Railway | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform later 1 side platform | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Status | Destroyed by fire (1996) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1911 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Closed | 1979 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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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
edit- ^ New York Central timetable, June 17, 1951, Table 1, 2, 7, 15 http://streamlinermemories.info/NYC/NYC51-6TT.pdf
- ^ New York Central Timetable, 1947, Table 29 http://streamlinermemories.info/NYC/NYC47-12TT.pdf
- ^ "Windsor, Ontario, Canada". trainweb.org. Retrieved January 2, 2019.
External links
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Media related to Michigan Central Railroad Depot (Windsor, Ontario) at Wikimedia Commons- Windsor, Ontario (USA RailGuide – TrainWeb)
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