The L&PS or L&PSR linked the city of London with Port Stanley on the northern shore of Lake Erie, a distance of approximately 25 miles or 40 km. The first passenger train arrived in 1856, the year construction of the line began. In 1914 the line was leased by the City of London, which proceeded to electrify it. The City bought the line outright in 1950, 36 years into its 99 year lease. During the 1950s, passenger traffic suffered from automobile competition and passenger operations were suspended in February 1957. Canadian National bought the line in 1965. The portion of the line from London to St. Thomas is now part of the CN Talbot Subdivision, while the St. Thomas to Port Stanley portion is operated by the Port Stanley Terminal Rail.
The motorized cars in front here, road numbers 10 and 14, were built in 1915 and 1917 respectively by the Jewett Car Company of Ohio. As well as the interurban cars, electric locos were used for freight traffic.
2 comments:
This is a fabulous photo, thank you very much for posting it. May I ask where the photo was found? Do you own it? I would like to share the photo to a Facebook group that is involved with the history of the L&PS, would that be ok? If yes, what credit should I include?
Thanks :)
It was a duplicate slide bought and sold -- no details of who the person who took it was. Quite a few pics on here are in that category, albeit they are cleaned up and restored with Photoshop. We can't do that with the slides before selling them as it would be misleading.
We see no problem with non-commercial website use as long as you link back to us.
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