General

Station Name: Downsview, a.k.a. Weston1
Subdivision: Newmarket
Mileage: 8.01
Station Symbols: ...
Train Order: P
Office Signals: DN
Sidings: 55 (mileage 7.84 to 8.26, west of Main)2
Other Tracks: 103
Location: (York County, Township of North York)

Footnotes

No. 45 will stop Mondays to Fridays inclusive at Downsview for exchange of mails.

Chronology4

Date Event
1860-09-10 NRC operates special train for His Royal Highness, Albert, Prince of Wales[Walker-1953, p. 8].
1869c NRC constructs section tool house: 12'×14'×7', wood frame, shingle roof[GTR.ND.1907, p. 152].
1884-08-08 Newmarket Era reports death of Lawrence Scully, a brakeman on the Northern Railway, after being hit by a train on August 1, 1884.
1891c GTR constructs shelter: 6'4"×6'4"×8', wood frame, shingle roof[GTR.ND.1907, p. 152].
1896-02-25 Locomotive on southbound passenger throws both driving rods north of Downsview station[The Evening Star (Toronto), Tuesday, February 25, 1896, p. 1, c. 2].

Photographs

Date Image Notes
Image Not Available
Unknown		 Flag stop shelter.

Drawings

Date Reference Railway Subject Description
1880c NAC/NMC 78602 NRC Passenger station/trackman's cottage. Plan. Track and side elevations. Section.
1880c NAC/NMC 98801 Variant of NAC/NMC 78602

End Notes

  1. Based on a ca. 1860 NRC time table, Weston was at Newmarket mileage 7.8[NRC-1860].
  2. Sidings history:
    Date Sidings
    1915-06-27*/1919-12-28 50
    1925-09-27 44
    1929-09-29/1938-01-09 43
    1944-09-03/1951-08-26 36
    1953-06-28/1957-10-27 55
    1958-04-27/1960-06-26 Yard
    *Capacity of sidings/passing tracks does not appear in GTRS time tables before 1915-06-27.
  3. Other Tracks history:
    Date Other Tracks
    1929-09-29/1954-06-27 10
    1954-09-26/1955-10-27 125
    1958-04-27/1960-06-26 Yard
    *Capacity of other tracks does not appear in CNR time tables before at least 1926-06-27.
  4. The date when this station was renamed has not been established. It appears as Downsview in a ca. 1902 GTR time table[GTR-1902, pp. 31-32].