General

Station Name: Atherley, a.k.a. Atherley Junction[GTR-1902, pp. 36-37]
Subdivision: Midland Newmarket
Mileage: 40.43 88.51
Station Symbols: YZ YZ
Train Order: P P
Office Signals: NF NF
Sidings: 31 (mileage 88.53 to 88.78)
Other Tracks: ... ...
Yard Limit Boards: ... 4,465 feet south
2,909 feet north
Location: (Ontario County, Mara Township)

Footnotes

TBD

All Southbound trains must approach Atherley prepared to stop and must not draw foul of south end of passing track unless main track is painly seen to be clear.

Chronology

Date Event
1872-09-15 NER opens from Orillia to Atherley[Hopper-1962, p. 641]
1873-07-22 MRC opens to Orillia[Cooper, pp. 14 & 153].
1890c GTR constructs freight shed: 14'×20'[GTR.ND.1907, p. 158]
1897c GTR adds two 10'×11' "wings" to east and west ends of MRC station[Speculation based on GTR.ND.1907, p. 158]
1903c GTR adds 16'×11' "pavilion" to west (Orillia) end of station[GTR.ND.1907, p. 158]
1920c GTR adds 16'×10'9" "Agent's Office" to north (Newmarket Subdivision track) side of station[NAC/NMC 96467]

Photographs

Date Image Notes
1903c
TRL/CPCC Acc. PC-ON 58		 MRC station after GTR ca. 1903 addition of "pavilion" looking west towards Orillia along former MRC track—connection to former NRC track passes behind station to right. Freight shed appears on left. The CPR's GB&SR bridge across the Narrows may appear in the background, which dates the photograph to after ca. 1910 but before ca. 1920 when the GTR added the Agent's Office to the north façade. The station's paint scheme is a "faux wainscot" that GTR appears to have adopted in an attempt to create a uniform "corporate image " among its stations.
1903c
Dave Spaulding collection		 View of Atherley station in the GTR era looking from junction between Lindsay—Midland and Allandale—North Bay lines.

Drawings

Date Reference Railway Subject Description
1920-05-13 NAC/NMC 96467 GTR Proposed addition to station. Plan. Elevations. 1"=100' location plan.
1920c J.P. Smith GTR Station.

End Notes