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Caption: WHO ARE YOU GONNA CALL? Driving through the day before, it was a surprise to see such activity at the Jarvis train station. Originally built around 1907, it replaced an earlier two storey structure that was built on the opposite side of the tracks. What made it unique, was not one, but two operators bays at the front and back. It was considered a 'union' station, because the two lines that eventually became part of the CNR network, were in fact built by the Great Western Railway (Cayuga Sub. - also referred to the Air Line) and the Hamilton & Northwestern Railway (Hagersville Sub).
The last of the rails - the Cayuga Subdivision - was eventually abandoned and then subsequently torn up around 1996....and no train stopped at it's platforms since, well, I don't know when other than to say years before! It's uniqueness always greeted passengers from the front on the Cayuga Sub., and also from the back on the Hagersville Sub. And, as a young railfanner who is always intrigued by the architecture of these buildings, it was always a treat to see the station as we arrived in Jarvis on our way to Port Dover, Simcoe, etc.
When CN was done with the building, it housed a couple of businesses. First, there was the "Neat Little Bookstore"...and the last owners was Michaud Fine Woodworking. However, due to the huge successes of Michaud's, they required bigger space to manufacture and showcase their handmade wooden games. Therefore putting the half-renovated station up for sale. Whats in store next? The station obviously is on the move, and if anyone has information as to where please pass it on! A Tim Hortons will soon occupy what will have to be termed as the 'former station site', thus ending over 100 years of railroad history in the town of Jarvis.
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Hope the station will find a good home!
It’s being moved just to the other side of Jarvis to the Antique Farm Machinery Association Property. They’ve got some old RR stuff there as well
Wonderful!
We moved to Jarvis in 1969 and our house backed onto the Cayuga Sub. close to the former siding west switch Jarvis, and the Jct. switch for the Hagerville Sub. There was no shortage of N&W and CN trains at that time. I recall a steam excursion off the Hagerville Sub. which headed west somewhere on the Cayuga Sub. in the early 70′s.
My Dad was the CN Roadmaster in Jarvis from 1969 to 1985. His office was in the former waiting room area of the station (behind the windows of the posted photo). When we moved to Jarvis in 1969 there was an Operator position at the Jarvis station. When the Hagerville Sub. was rerouted to cross highway 6 north of the hamlet of Garnet and connect with the Nanticoke Spur via a new railway crossing at grade with the Cayuga Sub. at CN Garnet, the operator was relocated there. At that time the section foreman and his crew moved into the operators area and used it as an office and lunch room until their positions were abolished and the Cayuga Sub. was abandoned, The signal maintainer worked out of the shanty immediately east of the station.
I was a CN section man at Jarvis in 1970 & 71 before transferring to the Work Equipment group at Danforth Shops in Scarborough, ON in late 1971.
My Mom had a weekly contract with CN to clean the lunchroom and offices until 1985.
Lots of work and personal history in that old building,
I too enjoyed stopping into Jarvis station travelling up and down the 6. Here’s my contribution in it’s glory in it’s former location.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2194355.
Glad the station is being preserved and not another entry in Ron Brown’s ‘The Station Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore’.