Summary
The first Lambton Station was built on the west side of Scarlett Road by the Credit Valley Railway in 1875 while its construction was progressing west towards St. Thomas with a branch to Orangeville. Work was temporarily suspended later the same year and the first revenue train to Lambton would not arrive until 1877. The station itself was a small rectangular board-and-batten structure with a Jerkinhead-style roof and a gable in the center facing the tracks. Wooden spires protruded from each end of the roof and the gable and ornate carved decorations lined the edges of the roof beneath each of them. Service to Orangeville became available in 1879, and to St. Thomas in 1881. A couple of years later in 1883, the Credit Valley Railway fell under the control of the Ontario & Quebec Railway, which itself existed solely on paper as a proxy of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Lambton Station initially saw a total of six train departures per day, but this was reduced to just four by 1899. Possibly due to low ridership as a result of Lambton’s rural surroundings at the time, these trains would only stop if flagged down to minimize unnecessary stops.
Rail traffic steadily increased towards the end of the century, and plans were initially formed to double track the entire Canadian Pacific line between Montreal and Windsor. This was only fulfilled in part over the following two decades, but it would ultimately include the former Credit Valley line through Lambton. This project involved raising the grade of the railway above the surrounding roads, as well as straightening out the curve that the original Lambton station was situated on. The old station was subsequently dismantled and a new one was built further east on the south side of the tracks at Dundas Street and Humbercrest Boulevard in 1911. Simultaneously, construction of a new freight marshalling yard was underway on the opposite side of the tracks, stretching from Scarlett Road to Runnymede Road. Despite this influx of jobs increasing the surrounding population, Lambton Station remained a flag stop and service to the station remained consistent. It was closed to passengers in 1939 and it’s believed that the station was moved east by flat car to Keele Street where it was readapted into a yard office. Assuming this was the case, the structure was finally dismantled in 1959 when a new yard office was built in the same location.
A circa 1898 official company photograph of the original Credit Valley structure at Lambton. It was very common in these early company photographs to have workers posing around some equipment like the handcart seen here. Photo by J.W.Heckman, courtesy of the Canadian Railway Historical Association. 
A second company photograph from June 1911 shows the Credit Valley station’s replacement. Photo by J. W. Heckman, courtesy of the Canadian Railway Historical Association.
Condensed Station Info:
| Location: | Served By: | Current State: | Date Built: | Date Demolished: |
| Scarlett Road (First) Humbercrest Blvd (Second) | Credit Valley (1877 – 1883) Canadian Pacific (1883 – 1939) | Demolished (Both) | 1876 (First) 1911 (Second) | 1911 (First) 1959 (Second) |