In the article I have retained a lot of the design of Toronto Union Station
was undertaken by men working for the CPR . now the intial planning of
Toronto Union and start of constructiuon Grand Trunk was proaby very
involved but of course they didn,t last the time it took to build the
station . Probally their failure slowed construction of the new station they
did not discuss that in the article . I found it interestinfg the large
amount of area used by the post office in thee station orginally that area
is now used by Go transit and there was a large dining room in the west end
of the station and a large lunch counter . I can remeber Windsor station
having a really posh dinning room went their for dinner in July 1962 my
first trip to Montreal. I was not back to montreal till 1972 and by that
time it was gone Canadian Pacfic had built the Chateau Champlain by then so
i guess the dining room became not profitable by then Does anybody have
any information about that . regards DAVID HILL
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From: "Derek Boles" <derekboles@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 10:29 PM
Subject: [cpsig] Electrification (was Re: CPR D-10 from sunset)
--- In cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "dave hill" <techill@...> wrote:
I guess North Toronto station had one thing going against it from the start
it was not big enough tom accomodate all CPRtrains out of Toronto I have
just received amn article from Canadian Railway and Marine world Dated sept
1927. In the article re the development of Union Station it was vretty well
a CPR designed structure . of course at time of construction Grand Trunk
I'm not sure what you found in that article that suggests that Union Station was a "CPR
designed structure." Union Station was built between 1915 and 1920 by the Toronto
Terminals Railway, jointly owned by the CPR and the GTR. The headhouse was designed by
a number of architects representing the interests of both railways, including Ross &
Macdonald representing the GTR and Hugh Jones representing the CPR. The Grand Trunk
name can still be seen over the Front Street entrance although no GTR trains ever used the
station.
was in Trouble and the CNR as we know it was in the formulation stages .
now North Toronto required a separate coach yard and roundhouse and with
The roundhouse for North Toronto Station was at West Toronto. There was a small coach
yard east of the NTS.
only 4 tracks to work with limited capacity . When Union station opened you
walked up to six tracks like today and the other tracks you walked down to
they were at the old union station level . The city of Toronto insisted on
When Union Station opened in August 1927, there were no tracks in the train shed, which
hadn't been built yet. All the tracks were on the old grade. The first six tracks in the shed
on the new elevated grade were opened in January 1930. The remaining four tracks
opened in December 1930.
Derek Boles
the TTR raising the tracls so underpasses could be built for traffic to the
Waterfront , I feel if CNoR had survived built the electified line
bussinessmen would have flocked to the area .High density building wouold
have happened St Clair to Bloor maybe Eaton,s would have built Eaton,s
Sumerhill instead of College st it would be closer to Deer Park . Forest
Hill Village and Rosedale these are where the people with the disposable
income have lived for generations. regards David Hill o
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