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| Via 2317 and its Venture train set make a brief station stop at Port Hope on August 03/24. |
Photo By Robin Long.
The accompanying photo shows the juxtaposition of one of Canada’s newest trains and one of the country’s oldest in-service railway stations. The train is one of the Siemens Venture sets, and the structure is the Via station at Port Hope. This station is located just west of the 1232 foot long Port Hope Viaduct at mile 270.7 of the CN Kingston Subdivision. It was opened in 1856 on the Toronto-Montreal mainline of the Grand Trunk Railway and is still served by several Toronto-Ottawa trains daily. In 1985 the building was restored to its appearance of 100 years earlier and in 1992 it received its designation as a heritage railway station from the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. Two similar limestone stations still exist along the Kingston Sub, specifically at Napanee (in service) and Ernestown (boarded up). For a view of the east side of the station, see the post “Via 651 at Port Hope” of June 20/19. For a few other photos of Port Hope see “New England Power in Ontario” of August 28/21 and “You’re My Soul and My (Prototype) Inspiration” of August 04/17.
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