Caption: At Stuart St - a recent brush cutting - removing decades of growth - revealed an old staircase which once led passengers to the station platform of the approx 1875-1930 Great Western Railway built station. Located just to the left of the staircase and built by the Great Western Railway, it was removed approx 1930 when the new James St. North building was constructed. The GWR station would have been the second station built at Hamilton, the first built approx 1855.

For a photo depicting the second station, see this link: here

A photo of the first Great Western Railway station - estmiated more to the left but closer to the mainline (was in the middle of the yard, essentially near the former CN/SOR shop building) can be found on Ray's Old Time Trains site here with plenty more detail for those interested in history

In this scene CN 330 is making a set-off in the yard, and construction crews are busy with James St. North new GO station and Bay St overpass - once all completed - the foreground lands will become the parking lot for James. St. North GO Station. All of this built posthaste due to the Pan-Am Games in 2015.

For anyone interested in old stations of the Great Western - head to Grimsby where the 1855 wooden station still stands and would have looked very similar to Hamilton - and is likely the oldest Canadian wooden station still in existence and stands as a pottery store beside the VIA stop.