Caption: Most of the fans in Southern Ontario are familiar with the TH&B Yard Office at Aberdeen, off Aberdeen Av opposite the Chedoke Golf Course on Studholme. It has changed very little over the years; and this image taken 43 years ago could almost have been much more recent. It looks like an old passenger station, and once upon a time it was.
I do not have much information on it as such and would appreciate hearing from anyone. My TH&B timetable of 1916 shows only one daily passenger train that stopped here. And by then it was only a flagstop. It is almost amusing the timetable shows this train leaving Waterford at 630PM as the Toronto-Montreal Express #10. Dream big. The train was scheduled thru Aberdeen at 7:51PM and into downtown Hamilton for 8PM. Then, via CPR; off toward Toronto, leaving 820PM and arriving in the Big Smoke at 9:23PM. It was to arrive in Montreal the following morning.
The station was built in the 1890s, and evidently was lightly patronized.
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Excellent picture!
When did it come down?
This station still exists. You must be referring to Galr CN. I don’t have a demolition year or whether it was moved or anything else. Sorry.