Lake Erie and Northern Railway

Lake Erie and Northern Railway

Overview
Reporting mark	LE&N
Locale	Grand River Valley, Ontario
Dates of operation	1916–1955 (end of passenger service)
Predecessor	Grand Valley Railway
Successor	Canadian Pacific Electric Lines
Technical
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Electrification	1500 V DC overhead
Length	80 km (50 mi)
Route map Legend miles   Grand River Railway CP Galt Subdivision 0.00 Galt Main Street 0.4 Concession Street, Galt 1.1 West Side Junction 1.5 Scotts 2.1 McPherson 2.2 Stone Haven [Veradoon] 2.5 River Bridge 2.9 Riverside 3.5 Concession No. 8 4.5 Grand River Park [Carrick] 5.3 Lynwood [McCrea] 6.73 Glen Morris 8.1 Irwins 9.4 Robertson 10.9 Blue Lake (37.90) Grand Trunk Railway 11.6 Braeside 13.32 Paris CN Dundas Subdivision 14.4 Leeds 14.7 Faulds 15.2 Oak Park 16.2 Ebor Park 16.5 Stuart 17.3 Dutton [Pitts] 17.6 Hardy 18.6 Golf Club, Brantford 20.3 Grand River Avenue [West Mill Street, Brantford] Brantford LE&N station (1916–17) Great Western Railway/CN 21.10 Brantford union station (1917–54) with Brantford and Hamilton Electric Railway Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway Grand River 22.2 Mount Pleasant Road 23.70 Fairchild 25.1 Lundy Lane 25.7 McAllister [McAlister] 26.17 Mount Pleasant 26.7 Doyle 27.73 Maple Grove 28.6 Merritt 29.45 Oakland 30.2 Westbrook 31.2 Bannisters 32.1 Wilsonville 33.0 Boston Road 33.8 Lutesville 34.4 Dundurn 35.7 Round Plains [Stop No. 7] 36.5 Bunker Hill Black Bridge over Canada Southern Railway 36.72 Waterford 37.2 Thompsons 38.3 Cherry Valley 39.2 Blaney 40.2 Bloomsburg 41.1 Windham Road 42.1 Colborne CN Simcoe Subdivision 42.9 Simcoe, North 43.62 Simcoe 44.7 Decou 45.4 Lynn Valley Port Dover and Lake Huron Railway 46.6 Stickney 48.0 Bowlby 48.6 Blue Line 50.0 Main Street, Port Dover 50.4 Ivey [Ivey's Junction] 51.02 Port Dover (1923 onward) Port Dover and Lake Huron Railway Port Dover GTR station (until 1923) Hamilton and Lake Erie Railway This diagram: view talk edit

The Lake Erie and Northern Railway (reporting mark LE&N)^[1] was an interurban electric railway which operated in the Grand River Valley in Ontario, Canada. The railway owned and operated a north–south mainline which ran from Galt in the north (now a part of Cambridge) to Port Dover on the shore of Lake Erie in the south. Along the way, it ran through rural areas of Waterloo County, Brant County, and Norfolk County, as well as the city of Brantford, where it had an interchange with the Brantford and Hamilton Electric Railway. Construction on the mainline began in 1913. The railway began operations in 1916 as a subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), which had purchased the line before construction had finished. In 1931, it was consolidated with the Grand River Railway under a single CPR subsidiary, the Canadian Pacific Electric Lines (CPEL), which managed both interurban railways, though they continued to exist as legally separate entities. Passenger service was discontinued in 1955 but electric freight operations continued until 1961, when the LE&N's electric locomotives were replaced by diesel CPR locomotives and the line was de-electrified. In the same year, service on the mainline from Simcoe to Port Dover was discontinued, but the remainder continued to operate as a branchline which as early as 1975 was known as the CP Simcoe Subdivision.^[2] The remainder of the line was officially abandoned in the early 1990s, ending almost seventy-five years of operation.