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Brighton station building survived, serving as a museum until 2017. and was provincially designated on August 16, 2000 under Part 4 of the
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came near the end of the Great War; by 1964, most of that road, the main street of southeastern
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preserved a collection of railway memorabilia in southeastern
Ontario. It closed in 2017 and its collections were auctioned in 2021. It was located in the former
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used by repair workers to travel along the tracks). The Murrow
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wayside station, much like those still in rail service in
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