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Great Western Railway

1   will be received ... at the office of the Great Western Railway Company ... for the procuring and delivering of

2   Horse" could almost be felt in the air. The Great Western Rail Road, Hamilton's own mighty project, was advertising

3   N.Y., with two little locomotives for the Great Western Rail Road perched on her decks. She cleared for Kingston on

4   corner of the harbour. On the same day, the G.W.R.R. called for tenders for dredging and piling the

5   three first-class steamers here, two for the Great Western Rail Road and one to run in connection with the Niagara &

6   again in port with two more locomotives for the Great Western Rail Road from Cape Vincent. The report stated that the

7   smoke pipes and 65 pairs of trucks, all for the Great Western Rail Road. Three days before the TRAVELLER, Capt. Conisette,

8   new steamer AMERICA for the Great Western Railway, was launched on the 15 June 1854, at the Niagara

9   had conceived a plan to build a tramway from the Great Western Rail Road to the City Docks. M. W. Browne, as spokesman for

10   on the 11 October, carried this cargo for the Great Western R. R.: Two locomotives and tenders, 150 tons of coal,

11   new steamer AMERICA of the Great Western R. R. Co. made a trial run from Niagara to Toronto on the

12   by Bethune & Co., had been chartered by the Great Western Rail Road, to carry locomotives from the Genesee to the

13   The PRINCESS ROYAL, after the completion of her G.W.R.R. charter, would resume her trips between Toronto

14   splendid steamers are now on the stocks for the Great Western R. R. They are nearly 300 feet in length and will be

15   J. Brydges, Managing Director of the Great Western R. R. announced hopefully, that their steamers CANADA,

16   Toronto at 4:15 p. m. and arrived back at the G. W. R. R. Wharf at 6:39 p.m. We have every reason to

17   & Co. from Cleveland, coalStr. AMERICA, Masson, G. W. R. R., from OswegoSch. CERES, McMaster, G. W. R. R.,

18   to take place on Saturday, 13 October, near the G. W. R. R. Wharf. The advertisement was signed by Capt.

19   east of Wentworth Street and north of the G. W. R. R. tracks, close to the west fork of Sherman Inlet.

20   he stated that he had sold one locomotive to the Great Western and was building two more on

21   Express Line" to Brockville, connecting with the G. W. R. R. and the Grand Trunk. Also on this route were the

22   Great Western Railway called for tenders for construction of a steam

23   to the Grand Trunk and 2 freight engines to the Great Western. Eight more passenger engines are being built for

24   construction. His contracts involved the Great Western, the Cobourg & Peterborough, the Port Hope,

25   Great Western Railway was, at this time, extending their wharf and

26   cabin fixtures, furniture, etc. of the Great Western steamers CANADA and AMERICA, which are now lying

27   and ST. LAWRENCE, Capt. Mowat, all for the G. W. Rail Road. The schooner JOHN POTTER, Capt. Graham, arrived

28   news item of the year was the completion of the Great Western Rail Road's branch from Komoka to Sarnia. This line had been

29   via the Sarnia Branch of the Great Western was beginning to pay off and the Hamilton

30   direct some of the innumerable staves that the Great Western Railway has brought from the backwoods to our spacious

31   new Sarnia Branch of the G. W. R. R. was already making its presence felt in the

32   "Yesterday morning, the Chief Engineer of the Great Western Railway, George Lowe Reid, in company with Directors

33   the need for construction cars while the Great Western Railway was being built and then as the end of the job

34   it over an atrocious excuse for a road, to the Great Western station at Wyoming. This brings us back to

35   to Point Edward, thereby giving Hamilton's own Great Western most unwelcome competition for the grain trade

36   States Waters - The steamer CANADA, one of the Great Western Ry. steamers, which were sold by the Company some

37   Great Western Railway had all it could do to move grain from its Sarnia

38   built in 1862.Photo Ontario Archives S-3990The Great Western Railway, having cleared away what was left of their

39   Great Western Railway called for tenders for their first car-ferry with

40  Great Western Railway of Canada Notice to Ship Builders and

41   & Co. still have 500,000 feet coming in on the Great Western from the London district, where they have had 400

42   the railway yards, there was great activity. The Great Western Ry. Rolling Mill was under construction. As the

43   and was also working on the engines for the Great Western Ry. car ferry at

44   Great Western Railway car-ferry GREAT WESTERN was launched from the

45   the Great Western Railway shops, a reporter from the Hamilton Times had

46   sailing from the Victoria Wharf, near the Great Western Station, at 7:00 a.m., arriving at Toronto at

47   Swinyard, General Manager of the Great Western Ry. was calling for tenders for the conveyance of

48   This railway was a northern extension of the Great Western's branch line from Harrisburg to Guelph and when

49   Co. and was situated on Stuart St., opposite the G. W. Ry. station.

50   that the COLUMBIA had been chartered by the Great Western Ry. to carry cargo between Hamilton and Toronto,

51   long delay to canal traffic caused by the Great Western Ry. dropping a locomotive into the canal at

52   delivering the stone for the bridge under the G. W. Ry.... Two pile trestles over Land's Inlet have been

53   with a tow of 60,000 ft. of timber from the Great Western Ry. and belonging to Messrs. Bradley & Wilson, had

54   in store at the Great Western Ry. is about 240,000 bushels; flour, 25,000 bbls. The

55   the summer, the Great Western Railway had a large number of men and teams engaged in

56   August, the damaged parts were conveyed from the G. W. Ry. station to the Iron Works where the work involved

57   matters and, took a position as agent of the Great Western Ry. at Sarnia in 1860. Four years later, he joined

58   which unloaded 300 tons of cargo for the G. W. Ry. and the R. & O. steamer CORSICAN with passengers

59   of the hand brakes and switched onto the former Great Western at Merritton. From this point, the train had a

60   of time along the waterfront, starting with the Great Western Railroad in 1853, to the Hamilton Blast Furnace Co. in

61   unloading of the first locomotive for the Great Western Railway in Land's Inlet, near the future site of the

62   built a hotel on Stuart St., across from the new Great Western Railway station. In 1856, he sold the hotel and retired.

63   been built in 1864 by W. & R. Chisholm, for the Great Western Railway Co. and stood on the east side of Queen St.,

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