General

Station Name: Woodstock
Subdivision: Dundas Hickson Otterville
Mileage: 49.56 0.0 40.04
Station Symbols: WXYZ CWY
Train Order: DN DN
Office Signals: CK CK
Sidings: E.84
W.114
Yard
Other Tracks: Yard Yard
Location: 94 Victoria Street
Woodstock
(Oxford County)
HSMBC Report: RSR-198
Designation / Year: Positive / 1993

Footnotes

Hickson Subdivision

*C indicates coal only.

All switching movements over Peel, Dundas and Riddell Street (first, second and eight north of station) must be protected by member of crew. (B.T.C. 58925).

Chronology

Date Event
1875-09-08 Tracklaying for the PD&LHR is within a few miles of Woodstock[The Globe (Toronto), Wednesday, September 8, 1875, p. 1].
1875-10-06 PD&LHR opens to Woodstock[The Daily Globe (Toronto), Thursday, October 7, 1875, p. 1; Hopper-1962, p. 324].
1876-06-28

The Great Western Railway Company are laying junction at Woodstock to connect with the Port Dover and Lake Huron Railway.

[The Globe (Toronto), Wednesday, June 28, 1876, p. 3]
1876-08-04 GWR and PD&LHR trains collide at Woodstock[The Globe (Toronto), Saturday, August 5, 1876, p. 1].

Photographs

Date Image Notes
n.d.
Elizabeth A. Willmot photo
Station.

Drawings

Date Reference Railway Subject Description
1880 NAC / Col. RG30M Acc. 78903/42 Item 879 GWR Combination passenger house and dwelling
1882 NAC / Col. RG30M Acc. 78903/42 Item 880 GWR Combination passenger house and dwelling Door details.

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