Mount Pleasant station (Brant County, Ontario)

The Mount Pleasant railway station is a disused railway station in Mount Pleasant, Brant County, Ontario, Canada. The station was built in 1916 for the Lake Erie and Northern Railway (an interurban electric railway which was a Canadian Pacific Railway subsidiary) according to a standard Canadian Pacific design, and was later used by the Grand River Railway, which was also a subsidiary of Canadian Pacific.[1] The station, along with the rest of the Lake Erie and Northern system, was closed to passenger traffic in 1955 after a series of final excursion trips.[2]

Mount Pleasant station
Location	Mount Pleasant, Brant County, Ontario Canada
Coordinates	43.08090°N 80.31717°W
Operated by	Lake Erie and Northern Railway Grand River Railway Canadian Pacific Railway
History
Opened	1916
Closed	1955
Former services
Preceding station Lake Erie and Northern Railway Following station Lundy Lane towards Galt Main Street Mainline Maple Grove towards Port Dover

Interurban railway service in the area began when the Grand Valley Railway Company purchased the Brantford Street Railway and extended it northward to Galt via Paris, Ontario, a process which was completed in 1904.[3] By 1912, however, this line had been shut down due to poor track quality, and was ultimately sold to the City of Brantford, and later the Lake Erie and Northern. The Lake Erie and Northern, with its line still under construction in 1914, was purchased by the Canadian Pacific Railway, which was beginning to buy up and consolidate interurban railways. To complement its northern section between Galt and Brantford, the Lake Erie and Northern quickly built a southern section, initially to Simcoe, then to Port Dover, both in mid-1916. The surviving station building dates from this era, and is constructed according to a standard CPR pattern, with a steep roofline and prominent gables.[4]

After the station closed, the building was moved onto private property on Mount Pleasant Road.[4] A local group, the Brant Railway Heritage Society, is hoping to restore or recreate the station building as a railway museum.[1]

References

1. Thompson, Brian (8 August 2019). "Effort underway to save 103-year-old railway station". Brantford Expositor. Archived from the original on 9 August 2019. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
2. "Lake Erie & Northern Railway". Trainweb.org. 20 October 2009. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
3. "Grand Valley Railway". Ontario Historic Railways Project. 3 January 1998. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
4. Brown, Ron (2011). In Search of the Grand Trunk: Ghost Rail Lines in Ontario. Dundurn Press. ISBN 978-1-55488-882-5.