The Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore

The Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
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Brown celebrates the survival of our railway heritage in stations that have been saved or remain in use. Despite the «green» benefits of rail travel, Canada has lost much of its railway heritage. Across the country stations have been bulldozed and rails ripped up. Once the heart of communities large and small, stations and tracks have left little more than a gaping hole in Canada’s landscapes. This book revisits the times when railways were the country’s economic lifelines, and the station the social centre. Here was where we worked, played, listened to political speeches, or simply said goodbye to loved ones. The landscapes that grew around the station are also explored and include such forgotten features as station hotels, restaurants, gardens, and the once-common railway YMCA. Railway companies often hired the world’s leading architects to design grand station buildings that ranged in style from chateauesque to art deco. Even small-town stations and wayside shelters displayed an artistic flare and elegance. Although most have vanished, the book celebrates the survival of that heritage in stations that have been saved or remain in use. The book will appeal to anyone who has links with our rail era, or who simply appreciates the value of Canada’s built heritage.

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Ron Brown. The Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgements

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The West: a Portfolio

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Ontario: a Portfolio

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The East: A Portfolio

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Bibliography

List of Colour Plates

Copyright

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This photo taken in Sharbot Lake, Ontario, depicts the CPR’s Van Horne Station, that line’s first station style. Photo courtesy of the Dave Shaw Railway Memories Collection.

I would like especially to thank the staff of the following vital institutions and organizations for supplying photos, manuscripts, and a wide variety of railway rule books and publications. These include:

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Patrons enjoy a meal in the CPR divisional station restaurant at Smiths Falls, Ontario. Photo courtesy of CP Archives, 25655.

In smaller communities the railways would contract out the lunch service to a local hotel or café. The Grand Trunk station at Kingston went further and, according to an advertisement, offered this added feature: “Passengers going east or west by the night trains may avoid much unpleasant inconvenience arising from being disturbed at unreasonable hours by driving to the railway station early in the evening where they can obtain comfortable bedrooms and an undisturbed sleep till the hour of departure for the train.”

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