The first railway station in Palgrave was built by the Hamilton & North-Western Railway in 1877. While no photos are known to exist of this station, it followed a standard design that was also used in other areas like Cheltenham and Burlington. It would have been a rectangular wooden structure with a board-and-batten exterior and a pitched roof with a bellcast gable. Just three years after the station was constructed the H&NW merged with its rival, the Northern Railway of Canada, to form the Northern and North Western Railway. The N&NW was itself acquired by the much larger Grand Trunk Railway nine years later in 1888.
For an unknown reason, the original station was replaced by the Grand Trunk around 1900. The new station was a rectangular board-and-batten structure with a long baggage room extending outward to one side. A simple pitched roof was located on top with a gable above the station agent’s office. A total of four trains stopped at Palgrave on a daily basis by 1908, reflective of the rural and secondary nature of the railway line it was situated on. That year, the Canadian Pacific Railway opened a direct rail connection between Toronto and their transcontinental line in Sudbury which passed through the east end of Palgrave. This offered Palgrave’s residents a faster and more direct alternative to get to Toronto. The Grand Trunk station succumbed to fire in April 1919, and another replacement was built towards the end of the same year. This new station was also rectangular in shape, this time with a hipped bellcast roof and the station agent’s office in the middle. Simultaneously, the Grand Trunk had been undergoing financial difficulties that culminated in its nationalization and subsequent merger into Canadian National in 1923.
As automobiles started to appear during the early 20th century, branch line passenger ridership was one of the first things to feel the effects. Several old stagecoach routes in the area were turned into provincial highways in the 1920’s, allowing for a higher amount of car traffic at faster speeds than before. As ridership was further affected by the Great Depression, the station agent was replaced with a caretaker in 1931. The station remained in service for a couple more decades after that, but by 1955 it only saw one passenger train in each direction. The last passenger train would depart Palgrave Station in 1960, and Canadian National announced their intentions to dismantle the station in 1961. The station was torn down later the same year, and the remaining freight trains over the rail line would cease in 1969. Despite this, the rails remained in place for over a decade until they were torn up in 1984. The right-of-way now carries the Caledon Trailway, a mixed-use trail running from Terra Cotta to Tottenham.
Two men, possibly the station agent and another employee, pose for a photo circa 1900 at Palgrave’s second station, which had recently replaced its predecessor. Courtesy of the Sam Jones collection. 
Canadian National’s D-1 self-propelled car passes the third Palgrave station in 1958, as seen looking south from the Highway 50 crossing. Photo by Robert J. Sandusky.
Condensed Station Info:
| Location: | Served By: | Current State: | Date Built: | Date Demolished/Burned: |
| Highway 50 and Brawton Drive | H&NW (1878 – 1879) N&NW (1879 – 1888) GTR (1888 – 1923) CNR (1923 – 1960) | Demolished/Burned Down | 1877 (First) 1900 (Second) 1919 (Third) | 1900 (First) 1919 (Second) 1961 (Third) |