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| Dates of operation | 1888–1919 |
| Successor | Canadian Northern Railway Westport Subdivision |
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| Track gauge | 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)standard gauge |
TheBrockville, Westport and North-Western Railway was arailway inEastern Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 1884 as theBrockville, Westport & Sault Ste Marie Railway.[1] Construction began in 1886 heading north-west fromBrockville, Ontario toWestport, Ontario. The line opened March 4, 1888, between Westport and Brockville. From Lyn Junction to Brockville, the railway used trackage rights on theGrand Trunk Railway. In 1889, the line from Lyn Junction to Brockville opened. In 1894 the company was placed into receivership, and in 1903 it was sold by the court to a New York–based syndicate (Holm-Gerken-Schmitt-King) for $160,000 and re-incorporated as theBrockville, Westport and Northwestern Railway. The line was sold toWilliam Mackenzie andDonald Mann from theCanadian Northern Railway in 1910, and was eventually amalgamated into theCanadian National Railways in 1919.
In 1921, passenger service was maintained by a 20-passengerREO gasoline-powered railcar. The line was abandoned from Lyn Junction to Brockville in 1922, and from Lyn Junction to thePhillips Cables plant in 1925.
An application to abandon the line from Lyn Junction to Westport was filed with theBoard of Transport Commissioners in June 1951 and was approved (order number #49236) in 1952. Service ended on the line August 30, 1952, and was scrapped in late 1952 into the summer of 1953.
