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 Original station location at Queen Street in 1910 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Queen Street East Toronto, Ontario Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 43°39′27″N79°21′16″W / 43.65750°N 79.35444°W | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 2 miles (3.2 km) to Union Station [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Status | Building relocated | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1896 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Closed | 1967 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Don railway station was built in 1896 by the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) on the western bank of the Don River at the south side of Queen Street [2] in Toronto.
Permission was given to the CPR to build a branch line (Don Branch) from Leaside to downtown Toronto. [3] In 1892 the railway company completed construction of the line and the Don Station opened for business in February 1896. [4]
A collision in 1904 several blocks east of here at the Riverdale Station level crossing, between a Toronto Railway Company streetcar and a freight train, which killed three people and injured seventeen, showed the danger of such urban crossings. [5] This resulted in the station building being moved farther south, to allow the City of Toronto to build a higher bridge in 1911, which carried Queen Street over the railway tracks, river and roadways. [4]
The Canadian Northern Railway began using the Don Station in 1906, which sharing continued by the Canadian National Railway (CNR) after they absorbed the company. The pool train arrangement between CPR and CNR in 1933 resulted in the station's decline in importance, as most CPR trains then moved to the more direct CNR main line. [4]
The end came in 1967, when trains on the Toronto-Havelock route no longer stopped here, [4] and the building was moved to Todmorden Mills in 1969. [6] For some time it housed a railway heritage exhibit but eventually it was boarded up and closed to the public.
In 2008 the City of Toronto relocated it to Roundhouse Park, [6] where it was repainted and repaired and opened as a reception area for visitors to the Toronto Railway Museum.
The Don Valley Parkway (DVP) is a municipal expressway in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which connects the Gardiner Expressway in downtown Toronto with Highway 401. North of Highway 401, it continues as Highway 404. The parkway runs through the parklands of the Don River valley, after which it is named. It has a maximum speed limit of 90 km/h (56 mph) for its entire length of 15.0 km (9.3 mi). It is six lanes for most of its length, with eight lanes north of York Mills Road and four lanes south of Eastern Avenue. As a municipal road, it is patrolled by the Toronto Police Service.
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The Don Mills Trail is a 3-kilometre (1.9 mi) cycling and walking trail in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The trail runs south from York Mills Road, east of and roughly parallel to Leslie Street. The city built the trail on the roadbed of a former railway line, known as the Leaside Spur.
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336.4 Don station; 338.4 Toronto, Union station
In 1888, the CPR was granted permission to build a branch line from Leaside Junction to Bay Street.
The Don train station was moved to Todmorden Mills in 1969 in order to prevent its demolition; it was relocated to Roundhouse Park at 255 Bremner Boulevard in the fall of 2008.
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