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The Ottawa Central Railway (reporting mark OCRR) was a Canadian short-line railroad subsidiary of the Canadian National Railway. The headquarters were at the Walkley Yard, 3141 Albion Road South, Ottawa , Ontario , Canada. 45°21′58″N 75°38′57″W / 45.36611°N 75.64917°W / 45.36611; -75
Operates in the communities of Sandy Hill, Lowertown, Vanier, and the Ottawa Trainyards. No service between St. Laurent and Hurdman via Belfast and Terminal before 8:00am and after 9:00pm weekdays and Saturday, and after 7:25pm Sunday. 20 St-Laurent: Vanier: Travels via Monfort Hospital, Montréal, and Brittany.
The O-Train is a light-rail transit (LRT) system in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada operated by OC Transpo consisting of three lines and 25 stations. The Confederation Line is fully grade-separated and consists of 13 stations including 4 underground stations.
Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario: 9: 20: A westbound GO Transit train collided with a Toronto Transit Commission bus at the railway crossing between Danforth Road and Midland Avenue just north of the Scarborough GO Train Station. A faulty switch on the rear door had caused the bus to stop while straddling the track. [56] 1979 Turbo Train fire: 29 ...
The bus was carrying workers home from the nearby International Nickel Company. Nine people died as a result. [22] March 16 – United Kingdom – Doncaster rail crash. A driver was in the habit of exceeding a certain crossover's 10 mph (16 km/h) speed limit, but a track defect derailed the train and it crashed into an overbridge; 14 people died.
The O-Train is a light rail system in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, operated by OC Transpo.The system consists of three lines: the electrically-operated Confederation Line (Line 1), running east to west; and the diesel-operated Trillium Line (Line 2), running north to south, as well as the Airport Link (Line 4).
Canadian National Railway ran operations out of the Walkley Yard from August 1955 until 1998 when Ottawa Central Railway took over as a short line. The Last Trans-Con freight train ran through the yard in November 1995. Shortly after, the Beachburg Sub rail was pulled from Pembroke to North Bay.
The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway, or OA&PS, is a historic railway that operated in central and eastern Ontario, Canada, from 1897 to 1959.It was for a time the busiest railway route in Canada, [1] carrying both timber and wood products from today's Algonquin Provincial Park areas, as well as up to 40% of the grain traffic from the Canadian west from Depot Harbour at Parry Sound ...