The Mount Pleasant railway station is a disused railway station in Mount Pleasant, Brant County, Ontario, Canada. The station was built in 1916 for the Lake Erie and Northern Railway (an interurban electric railway which was a

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subsidiary) according to a standard Canadian Pacific design, and was later used by the

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, which was also a subsidiary of Canadian Pacific. The station, along with the rest of the Lake Erie and Northern system, was closed to passenger traffic in 1955 after a series of final excursion trips. Interurban railway service in the area began when the Grand Valley Railway Company purchased the

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and extended it northward to Galt via Paris, Ontario, a process which was completed in 1904. By 1912, however, this line had been shut down due to poor track quality, and was ultimately sold to the City of Brantford, and later the Lake Erie and Northern. The Lake Erie and Northern, with its line still under construction in 1914, was purchased by the

, which was beginning to buy up and consolidate interurban railways. To complement its northern section between Galt and Brantford, the Lake Erie and Northern quickly built a southern section, initially to

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, then to Port Dover, both in mid-1916. The surviving station building dates from this era, and is constructed according to a standard CPR pattern, with a steep

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and prominent gables. After the station closed, the building was moved onto private property on Mount Pleasant Road. A local group, the Brant Railway Heritage Society, is hoping to restore or recreate the station building as a railway museum.

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