The St. Thomas and Eastern Railway was a
shortline railway
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division of the
Trillium Railway, operating near
St. Thomas, Ontario
St. Thomas is a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada. It gained its city charter on March 4, 1881. The city is also the seat for Elgin County, although it is independent of the county.
At the time of the 2021 Census, the population of the city wa ...
,
Canada
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. The main commodities transported on the railway were grain, salt, and chemicals. St. Thomas and Eastern connected to
Canadian National at Sarum, east of St Thomas, and
Ontario Southland Railway (OSRX) in
Tillsonburg
Tillsonburg is a town in Oxford County, Ontario, Canada with a population of 18,615 located about 50 kilometres southeast of London, on Highway 3 at the junction of Highway 19.
History
Prior to European settlement, the present site of Tillso ...
. Total trackage was 33.6 miles. Trillium Railway ceased operations of the STER on December 20, 2013.
References
Ontario railways
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