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| • | The Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway (TH&B; AAR reporting mark THB) was a railway that ran in Southern Ontario. It began operations in 1892. The line originally ran between Hamilton and Welland, with plans to build to Toronto and Buffalo. In 1895, the Canadian Pacific Railway and the New York Central Railroad bought the TH&B.The TH&B was jointly owned by the CPR and the NYC for several decades. It never built into Toronto or Buffalo, but used its parent companies' trackage to reach the two cities. Passenger service on the TH&B was dicontinued on April 30, 1981. In 1977, CP Rail acquired NYC's half (at that point part of Conrail), and merged the TH&B into its system in 1987. While the TH&B line between Hamilton and Welland is still in use, its former line west of Hamilton to Waterford via Brantford has been abandoned past Aberdeen Avenue in Hamilton. The portion between Hamilton and Brantford was abandoned in the 1990s after trackage next to the Grand River was washed out. Some former TH&B industrial trackage still remains in the city of Brantford, although it is now operated by Canadian National Railway.
The TH&B railroad had become a wholly owned subsiduary of the CPR by the 1980s. Increased operating costs, and tighter profit margins in that decade meant the future of the railroad was much in doubt. The TH&B railroad was merged into the Canadian Pacific Railroad on January 1, 1987.
A portion of the branch of the former TH&B railroad (CP's Dunnville Spur, built by the TH&B in 1914), running from Smithville to Port Maitland via Dunnville, was abandoned on May 7, 2001, when the Port Maitland Turn made its final run between Smithville and E &
Source: [wikipedia: toronto, hamilton and buffalo railway]
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