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:''This article is about a historic railway which operated in the British colony of Canada West, later the Canadian province of Ontario. For other articles of the same name, see Great Western Railway (disambiguation).'' The Great Western Railway was a historic Canadian railway that operated in Canada West, today's province of Ontario. The original line completed in 1853-54 connected Niagara Falls to Windsor, running by way of Hamilton and London. In 1855 two important additions were made: the opening of the branch to Toronto and rail connections over the newly opened Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge. Further branches were opened to Sarnia and communities in the Bruce Peninsula. The line was taken over by the Grand Trunk Railway in August 1882, and ultimately became a major part of Canadian National Railway's southern Ontario routes. The majority of the mainlines remain in use to this day. Entrepreneur Samuel Zimmerman was instrumental in promoting its construction and Roswell Gardinier Benedict, a friend of Zimmerman's was the assistant chief engineer and later the chief engineer. At its peak the Great Western system stretched with its main operating base in Hamilton. The city at the Head-of-the-Lake was pivotal in opening up the unpopulated and heavily wooded interior of what was then known as Upper Canada. A substantial part of revenue was the railway's function as a bridge line between the New York Central and Michigan Central Railroads, making it significant in North American history. The main Niagara Falls-Windsor line is now the Canadian National Railway's Grimsby Subdivision, Dundas Subdivision, Chatham Subdivision, and CASO Subdivision. The Toronto branch is the Oakville Subdivision, and the Sarnia branch is the Strathroy Subdivision (which also includes a short piece of the main line, from London to Komoka). == References == * (Great Western Railway ), from Niagara Rails * (Great Western Railway in ''the Canadian Enyclopedia'' ) *(Great Western Railway ) *(Timeline from St Thomas Public Library ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Great Western Railway (Ontario)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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