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The Ontario Northland Railway (reporting mark ONT) is a Canadian railway operated by the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission, a provincial Crown agency of the government of Ontario. Originally built to develop the Lake Timiskaming and Lake Nipissing areas, the railway soon became a major factor in the economic growth of the province.
The Hamilton LRT (also known as the B-Line) is a planned light rail line in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, to operate along Main Street, King Street, and Queenston Road.It is one of five planned rapid transit lines which form Hamilton's proposed BLAST network.
In 1911, the T H and B was the first railway in North America to install the Absolute Permissive Block Signalling for single operation track allowing safe and efficient travel avoiding head-on and rear end collisions by holding one train back on the siding. TH&B locomotive No. 22 with crew, circa 1900-1910.
In 2024, the Ontario government under Doug Ford called on the federal government to share the cost of construction for two-way all day service on the Milton line. The project would involve a complete separation from CPKC's tracks by building dedicated GO Transit tracks along the rail corridor, and is estimated to be at $6 billion dollars.
Construction on the Weston subdivision itself finished in 2015, [17] allowing Union Pearson Express to begin operating, while additional track work in the Union Station Rail Corridor continued into 2016. [18] In 2009 Metrolinx purchased 26 kilometres (16 mi) of track along the corridor from Toronto to Bramalea for $160 million.
The Urban Transportation Development Corporation Ltd. (UTDC) is a former Crown corporation owned by the Government of Ontario, Canada.It was established in the 1970s as a way to enter what was then expected to be a burgeoning market in advanced light rail mass transit systems. [1]
Flamboro Speedway is a 0.333 mi (0.536 km) semi-banked asphalt short track motor racing oval, located twenty minutes northwest of Hamilton, in the rural community of Millgrove, Ontario, Canada. The track was established in 1962. [1]
The station would be located near the old CN Concord Station (located north of Highway 7 on east side of tracks on the current Barrie line) that dated back to the Northern Railway of Canada Thornhill Station c. 1853 and demolished in 1978. In 2023, a business case for the station was released.