Passenger stations were once a fixture of nearly every town and city across North America. The earliest were often simple and cheaply constructed, but many were impressive examples of their respective architectural periods. They were the focal point of the communities they served, and in an age before the telephone the station agent’s telegraph was sometimes the fastest or only source of news from the outside world. Passenger ridership on Canada’s railways dropped by 56% between 1946 and 1961 according to Statistics Canada, largely caused by the popularization of automobiles and air travel during the postwar era. Over the next few decades many passenger stations in Canada were thoughtlessly torn down by their respective railroad companies to cut costs, motivating numerous grassroots organizations to form and preserve the ones that remained. Not all were successful, but due to their efforts a lucky few of these passenger stations have survived to the present day. In this section of our website, we seek to document and catalogue the histories of passenger stations – the ones we’ve lost and the ones that remain – in the Greater Toronto Area to show how the presence of railroads in our communities has changed over time. The stations listed below are organized by the region they were located in, and you can click on each entry to read more information.

If you have historical material pertaining to a railway station within the Greater Toronto Area and would like to see it on this website, please contact us.

Note: Some station webpages are in progress and cannot be viewed by website visitors at this time.

Toronto Metropolitan Area

Durham Region

York Region

Peel Region

Halton Region