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Sad news Reports from Goderich media that the Goderich CNR station has suffered a major fire with all Goderich fire companies responding on October 20 2016. In recent years this building was vacant and for sale, but by winter 2016 a Media company had moved in who create content for broadcast television - a really neat company who happily gave me a tour of the interior. The Goderich-Exeter Railway also used this station as their base of operations until that was moved to Stratford sometime around 2000 probably when the Guelph sub lease occurred. The last regular service passenger trains here were in 1970. If anyone has more media reports on what happened, please link below.
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Caption: Sad news Reports from Goderich media that the Goderich CNR station has suffered a major fire with all Goderich fire companies responding on October 20 2016. In recent years this building was vacant and for sale, but by winter 2016 a Media company had moved in who create content for broadcast television - a really neat company who happily gave me a tour of the interior. The Goderich-Exeter Railway also used this station as their base of operations until that was moved to Stratford sometime around 2000 probably when the Guelph sub lease occurred. The last regular service passenger trains here were in 1970. If anyone has more reports on what happened, please comment below.

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Stephen C. Host [1535] (more) (contact)
Date: 01/20/2016 (search)
Railway: Goderich-Exeter (search)
Reporting Marks: GEXR 3393, GEXR 2303 (search)
Train Symbol: 581-20 (search)
Subdivision/SNS: Goderich (search)
City/Town: Goderich (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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6 Comments
  1. Stephen C. Host
    October 20, 2016 at 8:34 pm

    Or if one can clarify when GEXR moved base of operation to Stratford..

  2. Todd Steinman
    October 20, 2016 at 9:45 pm

    That’s some sad news re: the station rumoured to have caught fire and suffered heavy damage! Not another one!!!

  3. BradKetchen
    October 21, 2016 at 10:51 am

    Television broadcast facility in a station?? My kind of work in a lovely location. Sad about the fire. Did the business lose their facilities in it? And was it arson. If so… *hence the sign* “Who Can It Be Now? :(

  4. Stephen C. Host
    October 21, 2016 at 11:24 am

    The blue flag protection was for the Goderich shop, an engine was in the shop being worked on.

  5. railguy2016
    October 21, 2016 at 11:37 am

    The word going around is it was caused by one of the drone pilots lithium battery packs catching fire/exploding while charging.

  6. Stephen C. Host
    October 24, 2016 at 1:06 pm

    thanks for the info all. Any photos of the station after the fire?
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