General

Station Name: Lefroy, a.k.a. Innisfil[Smith-1956, p. 33]
Subdivision: Newmarket
Mileage: 51.81
Station Symbols: ...
Train Order: D
Office Signals: WF
Sidings: 39 (mileage 51.53 to 51.97)
Other Tracks: Freight shed: NS.24 (mileage 52.63 to 51.90 off Siding)
Location: (Simcoe County, Innisfil Township)

Footnotes1

None.

Chronology

Date Event
1852 Station designed by Frederic W. Cumberland2.
1853-01-11/1853-01-20 OS&HURR tenders construction of depot[The Globe (Toronto), Tuesday, January 11, 1853, p. 3].
1853-06-13 OS&HUR opens station3.
1860-09-10 NRC operates special train for His Royal Majesty, Albert, Prince of Wales[Walker-1953, p. 8].
1925-09-27 45 car passing track[CNR.CR.SWOD.AD.9, p. 11]
1929-09-29
Miles from Toronto: 51.8
Symbols: ...
Station Numbers: 4813
Train Order or Telephone Office: T
Sidings: 44
Other Tracks: 26
[CNR.CR.NOD.30, p. 3]
1935-09-29
Miles from Toronto: 51.8
Symbols: ...
Station Numbers: 4813
Train Order or Telephone Office: T
Sidings: 44
Other Tracks: 25
[CNR.CR.NOD.53, p. 3]
1961-10-29
Sidings: 33
Other Tracks: 24
1964-04-26 Appears in CNR PTT[CNR.A.195, Table 55].
1964-10-25 Does not appear in CNR PTT[CNR.A.196, Table 60].

Photographs

Date Image Notes
1900c
Innisfil Historical Society, IHS678		 Grain Elevator.

Drawings

Date Reference Railway Subject Description
n.d. NAC / Col. RG30M Acc. 945103, Box 5   Station yard. Plan. Innisfil
1869 NAC / Col. RG30M Acc. 90137 Item 166 NRC Track plan. 1in.=2 chains
1890 NAC / Col. RG30M Acc. 90137 Item 289 GTR Track plan. 1in.=50ft.
1948-01 [Wilson-1998, p. 35] CNR Track plan. Shows location of abandoned Belle Ewart ice spur.

End Notes

  1. Footnotes history:
    Date Footnote
    1919-09-28/1919-11-30 Extra precautions are necessary while weighing cars on track located on Belle Ewart Branch account heavy descending grade. While cars are being weighed hand brakes must be applied on rear of cars, brakeman must also be stationed on top of cars to prevent possibility of running away. Hayes Derail located 541 feet north of track scale.
    1925-09-27 Extra precautions are necessary while weighing cars on track located on Belle Ewart BranchSpur account heavy descending grade. While cars are being weighed hand brakes must be applied on rear of cars, brakeman must also be stationed on top of cars to prevent possibility of running away. Hayes Derail located 541 feet north of track scale.
    1926-09-26/1931-06-28 Extra precautions are necessary must be taken when weighing cars on track located on Belle Ewart SpurSide-track, account heavy descending grade. While cars are being weighed handHand brakes must be applied on rear of cars, brakeman must also beand Brakeman stationed on top of cars, to prevent possibility of running away. Hayes Derail located 541 feet north of track scale.
    1931-09-27 ...
  2. This statement is based on similar stations being built at Concord, King, Newmarket and Holland Landing[Brown-2002, p. 114]. Frederic W. Cumberland is identified as the architect of this station type by a plaque on the King station.
  3. This statement is based on the opening of the line to Bradford[Trout-1970, p. 106].