Ontario Northland/Northern Ontario Transportation

[lenaitch]

The station is (will be) "in Timmins", just not downtown. Timmins, like other northern Ontario communities founded on a mining camp, is a cluster of separate settlements that grew up around mines (some company towns) that turned into neighbourhoods. Much of the original alignment continues into areas of virtually no settlement but by the time it gets near the original station, it is built over. Without land purchases, using the old ROW could have gotten them closer, but not to, the old station.

There might be issues of surface or subsurface mining rights encroaching on the ROW or on areas where an alternative ROW could be that we are not familiar with.

It might simply be that the government wasn't willing to take on the rehabilitation and expropriation/land purchase costs. 'Juice vs squeeze', a big expenditure for little real gain. The North Bay station is not downtown and neither is the Kirkland Lake station stop.

 

[micheal_can]

The station is (will be) "in Timmins", just not downtown. Timmins, like other northern Ontario communities founded on a mining camp, is a cluster of separate settlements that grew up around mines (some company towns) that turned into neighbourhoods. Much of the original alignment continues into areas of virtually no settlement but by the time it gets near the original station, it is built over. Without land purchases, using the old ROW could have gotten them closer, but not to, the old station.

There might be issues of surface or subsurface mining rights encroaching on the ROW or on areas where an alternative ROW could be that we are not familiar with.

It might simply be that the government wasn't willing to take on the rehabilitation and expropriation/land purchase costs. 'Juice vs squeeze', a big expenditure for little real gain. The North Bay station is not downtown and neither is the Kirkland Lake station stop.

North Bay Museum to Ontario Northland - North Bay Bus Station

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Under 4km, walkable, and has regular transit.

The Timmins station is not walkable and is 8km away.

It could be compared to the Sudbury Junction station and the downtown one. It is also bad. It does not even have transit to it.

I truly hope that this is a temporary station and that in a decade when ridership is where it needs to be, a closer station is built.

 

[dowlingm]

Actually, I think rail is still in place but long out of service. I no longer have a Canadian Trackside Guide but I believe the stretch west of Kidd was identified as 'Hydro Spur'.

that (“Ontario Hydro spur”) is what the 2024 edition calls the track beyond the Ramore Subdivision terminus in Porcupine.