Summary

Newcastle Station was built by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1913 while the construction of their “lakeshore line” was progressing eastward to Glen Tay. This new line served as a diversion of the original Canadian Pacific mainline between Toronto and Ottawa, located approximately 20 kilometres north of Newcastle. The new line was built along the northern end of the community and a passenger station was built at the top of Mill Street, only a half kilometre north of Newcastle’s main intersection. Most importantly, this put it twice as close to Newcastle than the Grand Trunk Railway’s passenger station at the opposite end of town. The station followed a standard CPR design that was built extensively across the Canadian Pacific system during the early 20th Century. It was a rectangular two-storey structure with the station agent’s living quarters contained in the upper floor, a common design feature in many rural stations. The ground floor contained the waiting room and station agent’s office, along with a large baggage room extending from the west side of the building. Work on the lakeshore line was delayed for another year and the first train did not arrive in Newcastle until June 29th, 1914. Eight trains would stop there per day over the course of the next several years.

Passenger ridership across Canada was greatly hindered by the Great Depression and these effects hit Newcastle Station particularly hard. By 1931 only two trains were stopping there daily excluding Sundays. Canadian Pacific and Canadian National entered an agreement in 1933 to pool together their passenger service between Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal. The Canadian Pacific routes between those two points were the most affected with a significant number of their trains being moved to the faster Canadian National route. Passenger service to Newcastle would cease altogether before the end of the depression, but the station building remained on employee timetables for another two decades. It likely remained in use as a train order office or was repurposed to some extent by Canadian Pacific during this time. It was rendered obsolete by the implementation of Centralized Traffic Control during the early 1960’s and the station was torn down in 1964.

Condensed Station Info:

Location:	Served By:	Current State:	Date Built:	Date Demolished:
Mill Street North	Canadian Pacific Railway (1914 – 1930’s)	Demolished	1913	1964