Grimsby railway station

For the railway station in Grimsby, United Kingdom, see Grimsby Town railway station.

Via Rail/Amtrak (inter-city rail)

Location

99 Ontario Street
Grimsby, Ontario
Canada

Coordinates

43°11′45″N 79°33′28″W / 43.19583°N 79.55778°WCoordinates: 43°11′45″N 79°33′28″W / 43.19583°N 79.55778°W

Owned by

Via Rail

Tracks

Construction

Structure type

waiting area and shed

Parking

Yes

Disabled access

Yes

Other information

Station code

Via Rail: GRIM
Amtrak: GMS

History

Opened

1902

Rebuilt

late 1990s

Services

Preceding station		Amtrak		Following station
Aldershot toward Toronto		Maple Leaf (Operated by Via Rail)		St. Catharines toward New York City

Grimsby station in Grimsby, Ontario, Canada is served by the Maple Leaf train between Toronto and New York City.

The Maple Leaf is a joint Amtrak-Via Rail service: ticketing is shared, and trains consist of Amtrak equipment but are operated on the Toronto-Niagara Falls portion of the route by Via crews. The station was formerly served by additional Via trains operating as part of Corridor services, but these were discontinued in 2012.

The station is an accessible, unstaffed, but heated shelter beside the tracks and replaced a small wooden shed. Parking is free.

History

Original GWR station in 1855

The original Great Western Railway station, built in 1853, is used by Fork Road Pottery.^[1] It had also been used previously as a fruit depot and meat packing depot. The second GWR station burned down in 1900 and was replaced by a third in 1902.^[2] That historic railway station building had two towers and was destroyed by an electrical fire in 1994.That building was concurrently in use as a restaurant between 1979 and 1994.^[3] The current Via Rail shelter was built in the 1990s.

Connections

Greyhound Canada Quicklink service, from a bus stop across from station, has been discontinued

References

↑ "About Us". Forks Road Pottery. Retrieved December 2014. in 1997 moved operations to Grimsby’s Great Western Railway Station in Grimsby (b 1855).
↑ Jeffrey P. Smith. "Station: Grimsby". C.N.Rys. Ontario Stations. Retrieved December 2014.
↑ "Canadian National Railways Station, Grimsby, Ontario - RSR-218". Railway Station Report. Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. Retrieved December 2014.

External links

Media related to Grimsby railway station at Wikimedia Commons

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