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Former railway station in Dundas, Ontario, Canada From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dundas station was a passenger station in Dundas, Ontario, Canada. It was located halfway up the Niagara Escarpment west of downtown Dundas,[2] near where Hamilton Regional Road 8 (formerly Ontario Highway 8) crosses under the railway tracks.
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Location | Dundas, Ontario Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 43°16′22″N 79°58′28″W | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Connections | Canada Coach Lines[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Status | Building demolished | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | 1864 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Closed | 1990 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Great Western Railway (GWR) put their line through Dundas in 1853, but it wasn't until 1864 that the first station was built.[3] They amalgamated with the Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) in 1882,[4] who constructed a new station building in 1904 and double tracked the line.[3] The GTR was absorbed by the Canadian National Railway (CNR) in 1923. Via Rail continued to provide passenger train service to the station from 1977 until the mid 1980s. A fire seriously damaged the station in 1984 and it was decided to move the historic structure to a more suitable site. The building collapsed while it was being dismantled and it could not be saved.[3] The VIA/Amtrak International continued to stop until it was rerouted in 1990. A restricted fire access route from Highway 8 is the only reminder of a railway station in the area.
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