Ernestown station
Ernestown railway station in Loyalist, Ontario, Canada is a Heritage Railway Station, also protected under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act.
Ernestown | |||||||||||
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.jpg.webp) The station in 1980. | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | Canada | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 44°13′02″N 76°45′17″W | ||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||
| Structure type | Historic railway station | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 1855 | ||||||||||
| Closed | circa 1973 | ||||||||||
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| Official name | Former Grand Trunk Railway Station | ||||||||||
| Designated | 1992 | ||||||||||
| Reference no. | 4551 | ||||||||||
| Official name | Ernestown Railway Station | ||||||||||
| Designated | January 11, 1999 | ||||||||||
History
The Ontario Heritage Act designation notes that the station is "one of only nine first-generation Grand Trunk Stations surviving of thirty-four stations built along the line in an Italianate style that had already become associated with railway buildings in Britain in the 1840s".[1]
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