|
Caption: This station was originally built at a location known as Freeman Junction. The city of Burlington had not met it's urban sprawl when the Hamilton and Northwestern Railway intersected that of the line built by the Great Western Railway. All was eventually consumed into the Grand Trunk network, and ultimately, ended up under CN ownership when the Grand Trunk went belly up.
Much has changed at this junction since that time. The station was clad with insul-brick at one time, but that was removed and the CN semi-restored the building to house what I had been told was their 'test facility'. Little did I know that it's future was in doubt, with the expansion of Go Transit's trackage in this area. This meant the removal of the station only months later.
It was hoisted onto a trailer and sat on beams for about 8 years at the fire hall a short distance away on Fairview Street. As of writing this (2015) - it's full restoration is almost complete, as it took the city council sometime to come up with a plan for it.
Here, on this drab dreary spring day in 2005 - it sits with the Halton Subdivision visible in the foreground (former H & NW trackage to Georgetown, Milton, and points north to Allandale and Meaford), as well as with the Oakville Subdivision in front of the station.
|
That station for some reason posed a challenge to get a good image of. I ‘star’ this because it is a cut above any other shots of it I have seen. Well done!!
Its great that the station is perserved. I remember all the railfans out there on a summers evening with lawn chairs sitting by the tracks. When I worked the passenger trains we would give the railfans our completed train orders. Oh the good old days. I go by on freight trains these days and miss seeing the old station there.
To awmooney and ngineered4u….thank you. The rest of my shots wouldn’t have been approved…great angles, but something is blocking this, or that.
Todd, your image is a good one but this colour is sickening. I know I have a few images both alone and with trains passing. I just need the “curator” to pass them along or post them himself. I grew up a Burlingtonian, and started hanging around here in 1961 ( yeah, I’m that old !). As with Dundas and many other stations, long gone or otherwise, there are tales to be told….on another day.
You’re certainly right about that, Bruce. But was this station ever done up in Urinal Yellow as depicted here??
Ha, ‘urinal yellow’ – good one Arnold ! But no, to my knowledge, not as a functioning railway station, my understanding is it got this yellow siding after some engineering firm occupied it. Which would have been ?? after Aldershot became the station for VIA in the mid to late 90s.