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 1846, 12 26
Wolfe Island, Kingston
& Toronto Railroad Co.
incorporated. (expired)
1 649
1851
--
Wolfe Island. Railway & Canal Co.
(only canal built)
1 649
1851, 07 31
Provincial gauge (5ft 6ins) brought into
law
9 14
1852,
11 10 Grand Trunk
Railway (GTR) Act received
Royal Assent 9 13
1854
--
Ontario Foundry founded
2 161
1856
--
GTR Kingston (Outer) Station opened
6 18
1856,
10 -- Ontario
Foundry delivered first
locomotives 9 31
1856, 10 27
First GTR passenger trains through Kingston
13 –
1860, 11 02 GTR
Kingston
Branch opened (freight only) 6 34
1864 --
Ontario Foundry became Canadian Engine and Machine Co. 2
165
1870
--
Provincial gauge law repealed 9 20
1871,
02 15 Gananoque &
Rideau Railway
(later Thousand Islands Railway)
incorporated 4 145
1871, 04 14 Kingston
& Pembroke Rly. incorporated
5 167
1872,
summer K&P construction started
5 168
1873, 10 04
GTR regauged Toronto - Montreal main line to standard
16 367
1875,
06 17 K&P opened,
Kingston- Iron
Jct.(Godfrey) 5 168/9
1876 --
First K&P roundhouse built in Kingston
14 03
1876,
05 09 K&P opened to Sharbot Lake
5 53
1877, 02 02 Kingston
Street Rly. opened (horse operation) 11
7
1878,
--
Canadian Engine & Machine Co. became
Canadian Locomotive and Engineering Co. 2 173
1879, 05 15 Incorporation of Napanee,
Tamworth &
Quebec Ry.
(NTQ) 4
32
1881, 03 12 Incorporation of Bay of Quinte
Railway (BoQ)
4
26
1881, 12 29 First BoQ
train Deseronto-Deseronto Jct.
4 66
1882 --
GTR opened Hanley Station on
Kingston Branch
4 66
1883, 08 NTQ
brought under BoQ control
4 70
1883, 11 17
First G&R train into Gananoque
10
29
1883, fall
NTQ acquired running rights in Kingston
4 70
1884 --
K&P
Kingston station built
12
23
1884, 01 01
G&R opened for traffic
4 145
1884, 04 04 G&R
became Thousand Island Railway
10
28
1884, 08 04
Ontario
& Quebec Rly Co. completed
10
28
1884, 08 04
First NTQ train into Tamworth
4 83
1885 --
GTR Kingston Branch suburban service
started 6 38
1889, 02 09 BoQ
acquired running rights over K&P
into Kingston 4 70
1890,
04 24 NTQ renamed Kingston,
Napanee & Western Railway (KNW)
4 101
1891, 09 24 KNW became part of BoQ
4 70
1893, 09
KSR electrified and renamed Kingston,
Portsmouth and Cataraqui Street Railway
11 7
1893, 11 02 KNW service to Sydenham
opened
4 105
1895
--
Kingston
Penitentiary tramway in service (see notes)
15 back
1897 --
“Electric” added to KPCSR name
11 8
1897,
01 01 KNW merged with BoQ
4 70
1901 --
Canadian Locomotive and Engine Co. renamed The
Canadian Locomotive Co.
2 199
1901, 11 Canadian
Pacific acquired 73% of
K&P
5 180
1903 --
GTR completes double tracking,
Toronto-Montreal
9 17
1903, 06 12 BoQ opened Napanee-Deseronto
link 4 116
1906,
July 22 -
The Grand Trunk Railway changes from left to right hand running
on double track sections. The change involved considerable alteration
in crossovers, switches and semaphore signals.
16 390
1911 --
The
Canadian Locomotive Co renamed The Canadian Locomotive Co Ltd
(CLC)
2 221
1911, 03 06 TIR acquired by GTR
4 149
1911,
07 05 GTR sleeping car
service started ex Hanley
Station
6 41
1912
--
New
K&P roundhouse built in Kingston
14 4
1912
--
GTR
freight shed opened on Wellington
St., Kingston 6 121
1913
--
Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR)
Rideau Sub completed
7 123
1913,
01 01 K&P leased by
CP for 999 years
5 181
1914, 06 20 BoQ became part of CNoR
4 57
1922,
08
K&P flyover CN/GTR built
5 182
1923, 01 19 GTR acquired by Government
of
Canada
9 18
1925, 12 31 CN discontinues former
BoQ service into Kingston 5
177
1928,
11 28 CN #9000 (first
mainline diesel
loco) shipped ex CLC, Kingston
2 256
1929, 01 08 CN ended sleeping car
service ex Hanley
Station
6 41
1930, 01 04 CN ended Kingston Branch
suburban service
6
45
1930, 03 01 KPCESR
carbarn burned, operation ceased
11 70
1930, 06
CN (“Dupont”) spur opened to grain
elevator, Kingston
6
78
1940s Last KPCESR
track removed
1941,
04 21 CN(BoQ) line,
Tweed –Yarker,
abandoned
4 192
1947, 08 10 CN passenger engine
overturns at Outer Station
6 161
1948, 08 20 Last steam loco delivered
from CLC to a Canadian Railway (CP 1301)
2 26
1951, 08 01
CLC “Diesel
Day”, “City of Kingston”
FM demonstrator set
2 65
1954, 06 08 BoQ
merged with CNoR Consolidated Rys.
4 135
1956, 06
CNoR Consol. Rys. merged with CNR
4 135
1957, 06 15 Last
through mixed train on K&P
14 4
1958, 12 12 TIR
merged with CNR
4 149
1960, 06 21 Last
mixed train on K&P
14 4
1961, 12
29 Last through freight
on K&P
14 7
1962 or 63
CN
downtown(Wellington St.) freight shed closed
6 56
1964, 02
K&P
Sharbot Lake – Tichborne abandoned
14 7
1965 --
“Limestone
City &
Cent. Park Steam Ry Co." set
up for loco 1095 3 33
1966,
July 4 CP D10, 1095, placed on display
in Centennial Park
1968, 07 12 Last
loco to leave CLC plant
2 308/9
1970 --
CNR(GTR) downtown freight shed demolished
6 121
1970, 09 28 Visit
of Flying Scotsman (ex-London and North Eastern Railway 4-6-2 #4472).
Last steam train on K&P 8, No.
117
1971 --
CP
“O&Q” line abandoned
7 125
1974 --
K&P Kingston
turntable sent to Wakefield QC
14 4
1974, 05 04 Visit
of RDC 9072 to Kingston.
Last passenger train on K&P (?)
DVD
1974,
10 25 New CN(VIA)
station opened on
Counter Street with the construction of a
new bypass line through a rock cut north of Outer Station between
Montreal St and Division St. This was also notable in that it was
continuous welded rail on concrete ties.
6
107
1976, 03
Old Montreal Street CN
underpass
removed
6 183
1984 --
CN(CNoR) Rideau Sub abandoned
7 125
1986 --
CN
Napanee-Deseronto branch abandoned
7 125
1986, 05 09 K&P
Kingston-Tichborne abandoned
14 7
2006, 27 10 150th
anniversary of GTR/CNR/VIA passenger service
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