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, Canada. It was founded in 1884 as the ''Brockville, Westport & Sault Ste Marie Railway''.Brockville & Westport - The Beginning
Construction began in 1886 heading north-west from

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. The line opened March 4, 1888 between Westport and Brockville. From Lyn Junction to Brockville, the railway used trackage rights on the

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. In 1889, the line from Lyn Junction to Brockville opened. In 1894 the company was placed into receivership, and in 1903 it was sold by the court to a New York-based syndicate (Holm-Gerken-Schmitt-King) for $160,000 and re-incorporated as the ''Brockville, Westport and Northwestern Railway''. The line was sold to William Mackenzie and

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in 1910, and was eventually amalgamated into the

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in 1919. In 1921, passenger service was maintained by a 20-passenger REO gasoline-powered railcar. The line was abandoned from Lyn Junction to Brockville in 1922, and from Lyn Junction to the

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plant in 1925. An application to abandon the line from Lyn Junction to Westport was filed with the

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in June 1951 and was approved (order number #49236) in 1952. Service ended on the line August 30, 1952 and was scrapped in late 1952 into the summer of 1953.

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Railway chroniclesBrockville and Westport Railroad
- lynmuseum.ca - August 18, 2018
Brockville and Westport Railroad
- lynmuseum.ca - October 12, 2016 {{DEFAULTSORT:Brockville, Westport And North-Western Railway Defunct Ontario railways Predecessors of the Canadian National Railway History of rail transport in Leeds and Grenville United Counties Standard gauge railways in Canada

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