Comments on: Daily except Sunday passenger train 82 flies past the Aldershot station at about 0940h behind U-1-f 6076 (MLW, 1944). Originating at London at 0815h, the train will bypass Aldershot for a stop at Burlington (0943h) before continuing on for Toronto, arriving 1020h. 2 hours, 5 minutes compared to today’s 2 hours, 43 minutes on VIA Rail. This equipment would return westbound as train 75, departing Toronto at 1530h, through Bayview Junction at 1611h, and arriving London at 1740h. Information per the 1957 London/Stratford Division Employee Timetable. The 6076 would be scrapped August, 1960. Shot from the Waterdown Road crossing, the bridge would be built sometime between 1959 and 1962. Lemonville Road bridge is in the background.This would be the second station at this location, the original Great Western Railway one, built 1855, would be demolished in 1882 for this station, which would be closed and demolished in the early 1970s. Beginning in 1992 Aldershot would once again have a station, as the Aldershot GO station was built just east of the Waterdown Road bridge. Aldershot Cold Storage, at left, was a recognizable location for many photographers over the years before it’s demolition in 2009. See it in some shots on this site below. The facility seen in the background at right is Gordon Pickle Company.More by Aldershot Cold Storage:CPR 2399 eastbound at Gallagher Road, March 1959, Dan Dell’Unto CollectionCNR 6167 westbound, March 1962 by Doug PageGreen and gold elephant style, February 1963 by Doug PageCN passenger eastbound, March 1975, John Pittman CollectionEastbound Starlite, April 1980 by Arnold MooneyWestbound zebra stripes, August 1989 by Glenn CourtneyCN eastbound, May 1993 by Doug PageOriginal Photographer Unknown, Al Chione Duplicate, Jacob Patterson Collection Slide.

By: Marcus Stevens

Marcus Stevens — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:16:09 +0000

What an amazing image, hard to picture it like that today.

By: Jacob Patterson

Jacob Patterson — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 01:49:44 +0000

Thanks Arnold. I’ve come across this image from Image Halton, and it appears Gordon Pickle wasn’t the main use of that siding, if at all. It appears to have been used as a team track and by Robinson Coal Co. which had a yard and scale along the siding.

https://images.halinet.on.ca/details.asp?ID=19983

By: awmooney

awmooney — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 01:23:44 +0000

Amazing. Explains to me the track in behind the building as it was present in later years when the station was long gone.
Big THANKS for this one, Jacob.