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Railway Lands is an area in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Originally a large railway switching yard near the Toronto waterfront , including the CNR Spadina Roundhouse and the CPR John Roundhouse , it has since been redeveloped and today is home to mostly mixed-used development, including the CN Tower and Rogers Centre .
Located in Toronto’s formerly vast railway lands near Union Station, it is Canada's best surviving example of a roundhouse; now occupied by the Toronto Railway Heritage Centre, the Steam Whistle brewery and a furniture store Kensington Market [38] [39] 1815 (first development (Bellevue Estate)) 2006 Toronto
Portlands Energy Centre is a natural gas power station in the Port Lands. Pinewood Toronto Studios was built in 2008 on a former Esso oil tank farm in the Port Lands. The Port of Toronto is a 21-hectare (52-acre) container shipping facility and a cruise ship terminal along the eastern shore of the inner harbour operated by PortsToronto ...
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.
Roundhouse Park is a 17-acre (6.9 ha) park in the downtown core of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.It is in the former Railway Lands.It features the John Street Roundhouse, a preserved locomotive roundhouse that houses the Toronto Railway Museum, Steam Whistle Brewing, and the Rec Room restaurant and entertainment complex.
The South Core was once part Toronto Harbour and now lies on land fill done from the 1850s to 1920s to accommodate railway lines. From the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s, the Gardiner Expressway was erected, cutting off much of the city from the Toronto waterfront as rings of highways were built around many North American cities as was the trend at the time.
Pages in category "Railway Lands" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. ... Railway Lands; South Core, Toronto; C. CityPlace, Toronto; CN ...
Railway Lands west of the CN Tower in 1999, shortly before new developments transformed the area into CityPlace in the early 21st century. Going as far back as 1965, when CN began to shift the functions of many of its yards in the Greater Toronto Area to a centralized facility in the northern suburb of Vaughan, there had been plans to ...