Lambton Yard is a freight
marshalling yard
A classification yard ( American and Canadian English ( Canadian National Railway use)), marshalling yard ( British, Hong Kong, Indian, Australian, and Canadian English ( Canadian Pacific Railway use)) or shunting yard (Central Europe) is a ra ...
for the
Canadian Pacific Railway
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in
Toronto
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,
Ontario
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, Canada, and is located to the west of and contiguous with the
West Toronto Yard
West Toronto Yard is a small marshalling yard for Canadian Pacific Railway on the Galt Subdivision in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The yard was built in 1882 to relieve stress at the Parkdale Yard and is located near Keele Street and Dundas Street Wes ...
on the Galt Subdivision. The two were the main freight marshalling yard complex for the CPR in Toronto until replaced by the modern
CPR Toronto Yard
CPR Toronto Yard is a facility located in northeast Toronto, Ontario, Canada, often incorrectly referred to as Agincourt Yard because it is located in Agincourt, a neighbourhood of Toronto.
One of the largest marshalling yards in Canada (432 acr ...
in
Agincourt in April 1964.
Built from 1912 to 1913, Lambton served as mechanical and freight facilities. It also had a roundhouse facility from 1913 to 1960. This infrastructure was replaced by an
intermodal freight facility which transferred freight between truck and train, the site of which is now a
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store.
Around the mid-1960s an employee train shuttle works from Lambton over to the Toronto Yard in Agincourt.
It is located to the north of
Dundas Street West
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and south of
St. Clair Avenue
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St. Clair Avenue ...
West, between
Runnymede Road and
Scarlett Road
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.
Parts of the old turntable, namely the operator booth and parts of the table remain in the rear lot of the Rona store on West Toronto Street.
References
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Canadian Pacific Railway facilities
Rail yards in Toronto
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