Caption: GO Transit cab car 9855 leads a train of five single-level Hawker Siddeley commuter cars eastbound on CN's Oakville Sub towards Brown's Line overpass in southwest Etobicoke, after making its stop at Long Branch GO station. The sun angle suggests this is a late morning train, and timetables indicate GO operated an hourly afternoon service on the Lakeshore Line. An old wooden "Railway Junction, One Mile" triangular sign juts out on the left for eastbound trains approaching Canpa Junction.
In preparation for the launch of GO Transit's commuter rail service in 1967, it was decided the three old CN station stops serving Long Branch, Dixie Road, and Lakeview were to be consolidated into a new Long Branch GO station at Mile 9.6 of CN's Oakville Sub, located more to the west of the former location (Mile 8.8, by 30th Street) to better connect with the nearby TTC Long Branch streetcar loop. By that time, it doesn't appear there were any station buildings at those old scheduled CN stops, aside from a shelter at Dixie.
Photographer unknown, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.
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