Caption: Early on, when railways built their lines, sometimes they elected to build south of the namesake towns or cities, where costs for purchasing land were lower. The Grand Trunk was no exception, laying their double tracked mainline approx 1.7 km south from the town to where a small village was formed briefly known as 'Grafton Station'.
On a beautiful summer day, the red brick station sits quite picturesque, despite its days becoming numbered. Judging from the hole in the roof by the operators bay, the train order signal was removed and the station looks rather forlorn. However, this wasn't always the case.

The main business, at least until ten years before (1950) was Canada Canning Co. In fact, some houses existed for those who worked there, along with homes for dome railway employees. Although most buildings were removed after the plants closure, not all was lost. Some of the remaining walls to the factory remained and have been repurposed into a vacation home for a Toronto couple.

Although the small trackside village is no more, the main town exists in all its historical beauty. One can still go and railfan along the CN, or along the CP line that was built to compete for business. And, although the CN triple tracked the mainline, still to this day one can locate where Grafton had its small station, that stood through the glory days of steam and early days when diesel engines roamed the rails.