The Carlyle station is a former railway station in

Carlyle, Saskatchewan Carlyle ( 2016 population 1,508) is a town in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. Carlyle is the largest town servicing the far south-eastern corner of Saskatchewan and as a result, has become the economic and services centre of the region. ...

. It was built by the

Canadian National Railway The Canadian National Railway Company (french: Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States. CN i ...

in 1909 and later served

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. It now houses the Rusty Relics Museum.

Rusty Relics Museum

The Rusty Relics Museum was founded as a non-profit organisation in 1973 thanks to a Youth for Employment Grant from the government. Seven women went around Carlyle gathering artefacts and interviewing older residents to start the founding of the museum. Gladys Nicholl was elected its first president that same year. In 1976, the museum bought the old train station and had it moved to its present location. The museum officially opened on 8 July 1980. The museum houses a working telegraph station, 10,000 catalogued artefacts, a

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(CPR) caboose and jigger car on a railway track. As a separate building there is a country schoolhouse. There was

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that was built in 1905 as part of the museum, but it was demolished in 2019.

Gallery

File:Carlyle, Saskatchewan (juillet 1980).jpg, Carlyle Station (July 1980) File:Carlyle 150517-045 (18157867860).png, Museum entrance c. 2000s File:Carlyle 150517-041 (18157754578).png, Museum c. 2000s File:Museum tableau 1 (8731207535).jpg, Museum and schoolhouse c. 2000s File:Old church and tree (8732330054).jpg, Schoolhouse c. 2000s File:Rusty Relics Museum Schoolhouse.jpg, The old country schoolhouse. In this photo, the flag is half-mast because of the unmarked graves found at

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File:Carlyle 150517-054 (17722971494).png, Anglican Church c. 2000s, built 1905, demolished 2019

References

{{authority control Canadian National Railway stations in Saskatchewan Canadian Northern Railway stations in Saskatchewan Railway stations in Canada opened in 1909 Disused railway stations in Canada Railway museums in Saskatchewan 1909 establishments in Saskatchewan