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Railway station in Ontario, Canada For the proposed GO Transit station, see Grimsby GO Station. For the railway station in Grimsby, United Kingdom, see Grimsby Town railway station.
Grimsby
General information
Location99 Ontario Street
Grimsby, Ontario
Canada
Coordinates43°11′45″N 79°33′28″W / 43.19583°N 79.55778°W / 43.19583; -79.55778
Owned byVia Rail
Tracks2
Construction
Structure typeShelter
ParkingYes
AccessibleYes
Other information
Station code
History
Opened1902
RebuiltLate 1990s
Services
Preceding station Via Rail Following station
Aldershottoward Toronto Maple Leaf St. Catharinestoward New York
Former services
Preceding station Via Rail Following station
HamiltonClosed 1993toward Toronto Maple Leaf St. Catharinestoward New York
Preceding station Canadian National Railway Following station
Winowatoward Toronto Niagara Falls – Toronto
Local stops 		Grimsby Beachtoward Suspension Bridge

Grimsby station is a railway station in Grimsby, Ontario, Canada. It is served by the Maple Leaf train between Toronto and New York City.

The Maple Leaf is a joint Amtrak–Via Rail service: ticketing is shared, and trains consist of Amtrak equipment but are operated on the Toronto–Niagara Falls portion of the route by Via crews. The station was formerly served by additional Via trains operating as part of Corridor services, but these were discontinued in 2012.

The station is an accessible, unstaffed, but heated shelter beside the tracks replaced a small wooden shed. Parking is free.

History

Original station (1853)

The original Great Western Railway station, built in 1853, was moved further back from the tracks in the late 1800s, is unoccupied as of early 2021 and was most recently used by the Fork Road Pottery from 1997 until 2018. It had also been used previously as a fruit depot and meat packing depot.

  • Original GWR station in 1855 Original GWR station in 1855
  • Original GWR station in December 2020 Original GWR station in December 2020

Other buildings

The second GWR station burned down in 1900 and was replaced by a third in 1902. That historic railway station building had two towers and was destroyed by an electrical fire in 1994. That building was concurrently in use as a restaurant between 1979 and 1994. The current Via Rail shelter was built in the 1990s.

See also

References

  1. "Ontario Railway Stations - Grimsby". canada-rail.com. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
  2. "About Us". Forks Road Pottery. Archived from the original on September 4, 2013. Retrieved January 23, 2021. After selling the Forks Road Pottery location in Grimsby in 2018, have relocated to Port Colborne
  3. "About Us". Forks Road Pottery (archive). September 4, 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-09-04. Retrieved January 23, 2021. in 1997 moved operations to Grimsby's Great Western Railway Station in Grimsby
  4. Smith, Jeffrey P. "Station: Grimsby". C.N.Rys. Ontario Stations. Retrieved December 10, 2014.
  5. "Canadian National Railways Station, Grimsby, Ontario - RSR-218". Railway Station Report. Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. Retrieved December 10, 2014.

External links

Media related to Grimsby railway station at Wikimedia Commons

Amtrak stations in Ontario
Active stations (operated by Via Rail)
Former stations
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