233:(A&N) in Quebec from its US owners, and planning for a connecting line between Smiths Falls and the A&N at Montreal. These links made the original Cornwall Junction plans superfluous. The Cornwall Junction Railway rechartered on 2 September 1886 with plans to run northeast out of Cornwall to meet the O&Q at its closest point, about 20 kilometres (12 mi) north of the city. The O&Q extension to Montreal was completed in 1888, but the Cornwall line was never built.
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Cornwall on 30 March. The first through train ran from Montreal on 2 April, and the line officially opened on 24 May 1915. On 1 June it was leased to the CPR for 99 years. As part of widespread changes to the railway operating rules, the G&SR officially became part of the CPR and operated as their Cornwall Subdivision.
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dollar store. The original switchyards are now mostly vacant, except for a
Cornwall Electric building at 7th and Adolphus. A short section between the north end of the yard at Eighth Street and Marlborough, about two blocks, has been developed as a bike path. Between Marlborough and McConnell Avenue
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Cornwall was located on the corner of Pitt Street and Sixth Street West, running east between Pitt and Sydney. A freight shed was located a block east at Amelia, within a larger L-shaped block of land forming the main railway operating area. Within the roughly rectangular
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built interchanges at their yards in
Cornwall, offering businesses the ability to use the tram network to ship goods to the G&SR. In order to reduce the amount of traffic being carried on the lines on city streets, a new interchange line was built in 1949, which was itself replaced in 1953 by a
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chartered in 1910 to build almost due north from
Cornwall through Martintown and Alexandria to Hawkesbury, and then crossing the Ottawa River to connect to Canadian Pacific's line running along the north shore, meeting it somewhere between Calumet and Grenville in Quebec. This would run parallel to
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Glengarry and Stormont was finally successful in attracting investment. Track laying was completed on 30 November 1914, leaving only the stations and grading to be completed. The line's completion ceremony was marked by a dinner in Williamstown on 2 December. The first
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On 8 May 1913 the company rechartered with a new alignment running eastward through
Williamstown to meet the O&Q further east at a point that became known as Saint-Polycarpe Junction, just west of the small (ghost) town of De Beaujeu. Minor re-alignments followed over the next year before the
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Glengarry and Stormont Railway chartered in May 1912, with their own plans to connect to the O&Q. The original plan was to run almost due north out of Cornwall to the O&Q somewhere near Apple Hill, while a branch line would wye off at Martintown and run eastward for Williamstown and
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Cornwall Sub. The last passenger train left town on 20 September. This made the passenger station redundant and the short bit of line between Pitt and Sydney streets was abandoned on 31 January 1969.
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CP purchased the Cornwall Street Railway on 24 October 1969 in order to use their lines as spurs, but abandoned these plans and sold the lines to CN on 14 October 1970. CP abandoned the entire Cornwall Sub on 25 December 1995. Their short-lived subsidiary, the
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mainline, which ran along the northern section of the downtown area. However, a connection to other lines was desired, both to access additional routes, especially westward, as well as to provide competition for the GTR.
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the line forms the back of a parking lot for a plaza. The city owns the line as far east as Boundary Road, about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) east, but it is currently undeveloped.
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Cornwall Electric is the remaining independent part of the Cornwall Street Railway tram service, having sold off their lines to CN and bus service to the city, leaving them as a
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the CCR's Hawkesbury line, a short distance to the west. Nothing came of this initial proposal, and a second attempt to recharter the company in 1914 also led nowhere.
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in April 1880, and leased to the CAR on 17 April 1891. For reasons that are not well recorded, the CCR abandoned plans for their Cornwall connection in 1898.
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