Does that mean Niagra Falls-bound trains backtracked a bit to serve Dundas on the line?
One could indeed think that when looking at the April 1962 schedule, with indications like 17-692, 5-696, 691-14 or 693-6 suggesting that the Toronto-Niagara Falls RDC was attached to a Toronto-London(-Windsor/Sarnia/Chicago) train between Toronto and Dundas:
Source:
CN timetable effective 1962-04-29
However, when looking closer at the RDC timings (trains 691/692/693/694/695/696), one notices that they actually line up to a nice cycle once you ignore the Toronto-Dundas section:
| Train # | 691 | 693 | 695 |
| Niagara Falls dep. | 06:50 | 12:35 | 17:20 |
| Dundas arr. | 08:15 (est.) | 13:50 (est.) | 18:35 |
| Train # | 692 | 694 | 696 |
| Dundas dep. | 09:00 | 14:15 | 19:00 |
| Niagara Falls arr. | 10:30 | 15:35 | 20:40 |
This leaves me to believe that the RDCs merely connected with trains 17, 5, 14 and 6 at Dundas, which would have made 89-90 the only through train.
In any case, the experiment only lasted one summer, as the direct connection between Niagara Falls and Dundas was eliminated later the same year, with the notable exception of Sunday-only RDCs 651 (NIAG 17:20 / Dundas 18:45) and 654 (Dundas 19:15 / NIAG 20:45):
Source:
CN timetable effective 1962-10-28
However, even that once-weekly train only survived until the next summer, when Dundas was removed again from the Toronto-Niagara Falls table:
Source:
CN timetable effective 1963-04-28
In short, even though Dundas was indeed served from Niagara Falls for a few months in 1962, it does not appear as if they continued beyond Dundas and towards Toronto. Therefore, the only trains to operate through Bayview Junction twice were the Toronto-Hamilton-London(-Windsor/Sarnia/Chicago) trains I had mentioned
in my previous post and which all dropped the detour via Hamilton by Summer 1967...
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That said, CN timetables are notoriously blurry about which trains are running through and which trains have a connection, as both are often shown in the same way (note train 89-90, where 89 refers to its
westbound train number from Niagara Falls to Hamilton and 90 to its
eastbound train number from Hamilton to Toronto). My favorite is train 83, which is shown below:
Source:
CN timetable effective 1961-04-30
Regardless of how often you look at it, it appears to be a Toronto-London through train, departing in Toronto at 13:15 and stopping in London for 40 minutes (17:10-17:50), before continuing to Windsor, where it arrives at 20:40.
However, when you carefully look at the equipment, you notice something odd:
Let's just put this in a table again:
| Car type | Train number | Route |
|---|
| Coach | 75-83 | Toronto-[75]-London-[83]-Windsor |
| Coach | 83 | Toronto-[83]-London |
| Coach | 75-83 | Toronto-[75]-London-[83]-Windsor |
| Coach | 83-186 | Toronto-[83]-Hamilton-[186]-Niagara Falls |
| Parlor | 75-83 | Toronto-[75]-London-[83]-Windsor |
Did you note what was missing in the above? Any indication of a car traveling on train 83 both East
and West of London. I went through dozens of CN schedules and every single one from November 1946 to the discontinuance of train 83/183 in April 1962 states the same: through cars Toronto-London-Windsor only on train 75-83, cars departing Toronto on train 83 terminate in London...
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