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Normal operation of the PCHR is Monday to Friday with weekend service done at an extra charge. The PCHR is a division of the Trillium Railway. In business since 1997, it currently operates two short line railways in Southern Ontario: the Port Colborne Harbour Railway and the Saint Thomas and Eastern Railway. Combined trackage length of the two ...
But this railway was affiliated with the canal, and was actually used to help transfer cargoes from the lake ships, which were too large for the small canal locks, to the other end of the canal (The Trillium Railway owns the railway's remnants and Port Colborne Harbour Railway). Smaller ships called "canallers" also took a part of these loads.
Port Colborne is a city in Ontario, Canada that is located on Lake Erie, at the southern end of the Welland Canal, in the Niagara Region of Southern Ontario.The original settlement, known as Gravelly Bay, dates from 1832 [7] and was renamed after Sir John Colborne, a British war hero and the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada at the time of the opening of the (new) southern terminus of the ...
The Trillium Railway (reporting mark TRRY) is a Canadian short-line railroad operating in the province of Ontario. Much of its right-of-way in the Niagara area was formerly part of the " Welland Canal Railway " (also known as the Welland Railway ) that closely followed the route of the second Welland Canal .
Canadian National Railway: Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway: CP: 1868 1998 St. Lawrence and Hudson Railway: Toronto and Guelph Railway: GT: 1851 1853 Grand Trunk Railway: Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway: TH&B, THB CP/ NYC: 1884 Still exists as a nonoperating subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway: Toronto and Nipissing Railway: GT ...
US short line railway that owns trackage to serve one major Canadian customer Ontario Southland Railway: OSRX: Woodstock to Tillsonburg or St. Thomas: Independently owned: Port Colborne Harbour Railway: PCHR: St. Catharines to Port Colborne: Trillium Railways: Southern Ontario Railway: RLHH: Brantford to Nanticoke via Hamilton: Genesee ...
Canadian National Railway's Kingston Subdivision, or Kingston Sub for short, is a major railway line connecting Toronto with Montreal that carries the majority of CN traffic between these points. The line was originally the main trunk for the Grand Trunk Railway between these cities, although there has been some realignment of the route between ...
The Niagara, St. Catharines and Toronto Railway (reporting mark NS&T) [1] was an interurban radial electric railway in the Niagara Peninsula of Southern Ontario, Canada. It operated from 1899 to 1959. It was based in St. Catharines and had lines to Niagara-on-the-Lake, Port Dalhousie, Niagara Falls, Thorold, Welland and Port Colborne.