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Grand Central is an open-access train operating company in the United Kingdom. A subsidiary of Arriva UK Trains , it has operated passenger rail services since December 2007. The company was founded in April 2000 as 'Grand Central Railway Company'.
Map showing railway routes operated by the Grand Central Railway in 2010. The background map shows the coastline and major urban areas. Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 165%: Date: 1 February 2011: Source: Ordnance Survey OpenData. Great Britain coastline and boundary data from Boundary-Line product. Railway ...
This is a diagrammatic map of the Great Central Main Line, part of the former Great Central Railway network. The map shows the line as it currently is (please refer to legend), and includes all stations (open or closed). Some nearby lines and branch lines are also shown, though most stations are omitted on such lines if they are closed.
It provides access to the region's commuter rail, GO Transit, and inter-city rail services Amtrak, and Via Rail. Toronto is a major rail transportation hub in Canada and central North America, with most commercial rail freight operations carried out by two Class I railways, Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway.
Toronto's Union Station is Canada's largest and most opulent railway station. The Montreal architecture firm of Ross and Macdonald designed the building in the Beaux-Arts style as a joint venture between the Grand Trunk Railway and the Canadian Pacific Railway, with help from CPR architect Hugh Jones and Toronto architect John M. Lyle.
Grand Trunk Railway: London and Port Stanley Railway: LPS 1853 1965 Canadian National Railway: Electric from 1915 to 1957 Manitoulin and North Shore Railway: CP: 1888 1911 Algoma Eastern Railway: Marmora Railway and Mining Company: CNor: 1900 Wholly owned branch of the Central Ontario Railway, ultimately part of CNoR and CN. Michigan Central ...
The Great Central Railway was the first railway granted a coat of arms.It was granted on 25 February 1898 by the Garter, Clarenceux and Norroy Kings of Arms as: . Argent on a cross gules voided of the field between two wings in chief sable and as many daggers erect, in base of the second, in the fesse point a morion winged of the third, on a chief also of the second a pale of the first thereon ...
VIAs Toronto-Ottawa trains runs along the line to Brockville, where it splits off and heads north. The Toronto-Montreal train runs along the whole line. In fact, many say that VIA trains run along the line more than CN freight trains. The most used station on the line is Kingston, due to Montreal, and Toronto stations being on their own ...