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The Wellington, Grey and Bruce Railway (WG&BR) was a railway in Ontario, Canada. It ran roughly northwest from Guelph (in Wellington County ) to the port town of Southampton (in Bruce County ) on Lake Huron , a distance of 101 miles (163 km).
Wellington, Grey and Bruce Railway: GT: 1864 1893 Grand Trunk Railway: West Ontario Pacific Railway: CP: 1885 Still exists as a nonoperating subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway: Whitby and Port Perry Extension Railway: GT: 1874 1877 Whitby, Port Perry and Lindsay Railway: Whitby, Port Perry and Lindsay Railway: GT: 1877 1882 Midland ...
The history of Southampton is intertwined with the history of the Wellington, Grey and Bruce Railway (WG&B). The original 1856 charter for what was then known as the Canada North-West Railway called for a line "... from Southampton on Lake Huron to Toronto on Lake Ontario with branch to Owen Sound[.]" [15] The railway was intended to both serve the local area and to provide a through route to ...
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Wellington and Georgian Bay Railway; Wellington, Grey and Bruce Railway; West River Railroad; Western Extension Railway; Western Union Telegraph Company; Western Vermont Railroad; Weston, High Park and Toronto Street Railway (Limited) Whipple Car Company; Whitby and Port Perry Extension Railway; Whitby, Port Perry and Lindsay Railway; Windsor ...
The first railway to arrive was the Wellington, Grey and Bruce Railway (WG&B), by then a subsidiary of the Great Western Railway. The WG&B was initially known as the Canada North-West Railway (CNWR) With work finishing up in 1871 on the WG&B mainline running between Guelph and Southampton, permission was granted for a "Southern Extension" to ...
The London, Huron and Bruce Railway (LH&BR) was a short line railway in Ontario, Canada. It started in London, Ontario, running northward for 70 miles (110 km) to the small town of Wingham. It originally planned to continue north to Southampton or Kincardine, but instead joined the Wellington, Grey and Bruce Railway (WG&BR) at Wingham
Saugeen Shores is a town in Bruce County, Ontario, Canada, formed in 1998. In addition to the two main population centres of Southampton and Port Elgin, the town includes a portion of the village of Burgoyne and the North Bruce area, straddling the municipal eastern and southern boundary respectively. In 2016, the permanent population of ...