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with green flags that would be displayed to call for a stop. A large wharf was built on the lakeshore in 1879, giving rise to the village of
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in 1923 began a process that led to the CNoR's line becoming the north-south CN mainline. The mainline was reorganized and renamed several times before eventually becoming the Bala
Subdivision, while the LSJR was known as the Sutton Subdivision throughout. The LSJR was downgraded from a Subdivision
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by the end of the year. In the early 1870s, businessmen in the Sutton area, about 85 kilometres (53 mi) north of
Toronto, began talks with the T&N about a branch line. The Lake Simcoe Junction Railway was chartered on 29 March 1873, with plans to branch off the T&N on the north side of
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along the lakes some 150 kilometres (93 mi) north of
Toronto. A variety of lines linking points on between the two sprung up, looking to cut the route to Toronto as short as possible. None of the lines ran directly to Lake Simcoe, some 65 kilometres (40 mi) directly north, and the closest
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Jackson's Point on the lakeshore. A large wye was constructed on the south west side of Sutton for turning the trains around. The connection to the CNoR lines was a somewhat smaller wye at Zephyr Junction, at the corner of Zephyr Road and York-Durham Line.
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Shanly surveyed the line in 1875, but construction was delayed by the lack of a final agreement with the T&N. Construction began in early 1877 with grading all the way to Sutton, and the first rail was laid at
Stouffville on 18 June 1877. The line was built from
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eliminated the ice shipping business over time. Local service continued, but the wharf on the lake was abandoned on 24 September 1927, and the lines between there and Sutton were lifted in 1929. Mixed passenger/freight service ended on 19 May 1928.
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