The first Preston and Berlin Railway was a steam-operated railway, opened for operation in 1857.

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Preston, Ontario Preston is a community in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario. Prior to 1973 it was an independent town, incorporated in 1915, but amalgamation with the town of Hespeler, Ontario, the city of Galt, Ontario ...

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), were only apart, but the route required a bridge over the Grand River. Berlin's city council awarded the line a subsidy. The line operated for just three months. Ice flowing down the Grand River damaged piers of its bridge at

Doon, Ontario Doon is a suburban community and former village which is now a part of the city of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Doon was settled around 1800 by German Mennonites from Pennsylvania, and after 1830 by Scottish immigrants. The area is located at the c ...

. The bridge never re-opened. There were recriminations over the line's failure, and the satisfaction of those who inspected the line, and its bridge. Eventually, in 1863, an act in Canada's Parliament exonerated Berlin City Council. Edward Irving Ferguson acquired the line's assets, because he had held a mortgage on some of the line's property. He sold those assets to the Grand Trunk Railway, on November 14, 1865. The from Berlin, to the Grand River, at Doon, was incorporated into a route the Grand Trunk built from Berlin to

Galt, Ontario Galt is a community in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada, in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario on the Grand River. Prior to 1973, it was an independent city, incorporated in 1915, but amalgamation with the town of Hespeler, Ontario, the to ...

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, author = , date = , page = , location = , accessdate = 2017-03-16 , quote = A final act regarding the Preston and Berlin Railway was passed in 1863, authorizing its sale and exonerating Berlin from payment on its subscriptions, on which nothing was at any time actually paid. {{cite news , url = https://s3.amazonaws.com/content.sitezoogle.com/u/131959/5263e2486948fd1bf8132ac2e369bf2cd6416429/original/preston-berlin-ry-ucrs-rail-transit-march-1996-art-clowes.pdf?response-content-type=application/pdf&scheme=&X-Amz-Expires=7200&X-Amz-Date=20170315T035010Z&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAJUKM2ICUMTYS6ISA/20170315/us-east-1/s3/aws4_request&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=de088c8fc33d1f0e4f9afb48fec555ec8fef703d6d608e5bf6d8fc8f6b078a99 , first = Art , last = Clowes , title = Just A. Ferronut's Railway Archeology , publisher = Upper Canada Railway Society , newspaper = Rail & Transit , date = March 1996 , archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20170316032643/https://s3.amazonaws.com/content.sitezoogle.com/u/131959/5263e2486948fd1bf8132ac2e369bf2cd6416429/original/preston-berlin-ry-ucrs-rail-transit-march-1996-art-clowes.pdf , archivedate = 16 March 2017 , accessdate = 5 October 2020 , url-status = dead {{cite news , url = http://www.walterbeantrail.ca/prestonberlin.htm , title = Preston and Berlin Railway: A Short-Lived Line , publisher = Walter Bean Grand River Trail , author = , date = , page = , location = , accessdate = 2017-03-15 , quote = Rail transport in Cambridge, Ontario Passenger rail transport in Cambridge, Ontario Rail transport in Kitchener, Ontario Passenger rail transport in Kitchener, Ontario History of Cambridge, Ontario History of Kitchener, Ontario 19th century in Kitchener History of rail transport in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo Defunct Ontario railways Standard gauge railways in Canada

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