- Kitchener railway station
Kitchener station is a railway station in
Kitchener, Ontario . It is located slightly to the northeast of downtown Kitchener, at 126 Weber Street West, near the corner of Victoria Street. It is essentially a waiting room and ticket stand built beside a set of tracks also used as a freight yard. A separate building to the east of the passenger area, originally built in 1925 as a freight building,inote|ref=Brown now serves as the headquarters for theGoderich-Exeter Railway .The station is served by six
VIA Rail trains daily (three in each direction) running between Sarnia (via London) andToronto . OneGrand River Transit bus route stops next to the station.The station was built in 1897 by the
Grand Trunk Railway to replace a smaller station built in 1856. The station originally included a prominent clock tower. A second tower was added to the station after a 1908 fire. In 1966,Canadian National Railway (CN), by this point the owner of the station, removed the clock tower and the other roof features. In 1983, CN threatened to demolish the station, but VIA Rail, who had assumed responsibility for CN's passenger services in 1978, opted to retain it.inote|ref=Brown Under the provisions of Canada'sRailway Station Protection Act , it was designated a railway heritage structure as ofFebruary 15 ,1994 .inote|ref=SavageAs part of a plan which also includes building a
light rail way through Kitchener and north to Waterloo,Grand River Transit have proposed relocating VIA to a new station closer to their Charles Street bus terminal in downtown Kitchener, where they would interchange with a number of GRT routes, intercity buses, and possibly alsoGO Transit . An environmental assessment for the light railway is currently underway, but there is as yet no funding or construction schedule for the project as a whole.References
*cite book|author=Brown, Ron|title=The Last Stop: Ontario's heritage railway stations|publisher=Polar Bear Press, Toronto, Ontario|year=2002|id=ISBN 1-896757-19-7
*cite book|author=Savage, Dave|title=Directory of Railway Stations of Ontario|publisher=Canadian Station News, Cobourg, Ontario|year=1994|id=ISBN 0-9699091-0-1External links
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