Wynyard Railway Station

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The Wynyard train station is a through station on the northern edge of the Canadian town of Wynyard . It is located at the western end of a section of a link between the cities of Winnipeg and Edmonton , which is known as the Wynyard Subdivision. The Sutherland Subdivision joins it to the west.

history

From the end of the 19th century, the major Canadian railroad companies began to open up the vast prairie plains in the middle of the country. In addition to connecting existing centers, the aim was, in particular, to open up rural areas with the aim of collecting the agricultural products produced there and transporting them to the large cities and ports in the east of the country. This created a railway network primarily oriented in an east-west direction .

In the second half of the 1900s, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) built a connection from Winnipeg to the west in the direction of Edmonton north and parallel to its existing railway lines . So-called divisional points, train stations with maintenance and service facilities for steam locomotives , were also set up where the already existing settlement centers were too far apart . In the areas in between, only populated by individual courtyards, stopping points were created schematically at a distance of around seven miles , that is a little more than 11 kilometers. One of these divisional points was provided in an area that was only recently and therefore sparsely populated by settlers mainly of Icelandic descent and which was known as Vatnabyygd. The construction of the station as a divisional point therefore went hand in hand with the creation of a village. Founded in 1908 and raised to town status as early as 1911 , Wynyard is the capital of a still rural region today.

The station is only served by freight traffic, but CPR is still one of the city's most important employers. Passenger traffic has ceased, today it is carried out with greyhound buses.

Station building

The station building from 1909 is in the line of sight of the city's central street, which is limited to the north by the extensive station facilities. It is one and a half stories high and has an unusually steep mansard roof , the outer wall consists of inverted formwork . The roof is covered with wooden shingles, the gable runs parallel to the railway line. The building has dormers on both sides and, towards the tracks, a lower transverse gable, which also has the shape of a mansard roof. The balanced distribution of the window openings is remarkable. The windows themselves are lattice windows , in the lower part they have two rectangular, larger glass panes, in the upper part, divided into two rows, six square smaller panes of glass. Doors and windows on the ground floor have skylights that extend to the level of the eaves .

The building is supplemented on the east side by a one-story goods shed with a gable roof . The adjacent track field still largely reflects the original condition, including a turning triangle and a locomotive shed , which is no longer used as such. There are also some Douglas firs that were formerly part of a train station's own garden.

The building was based on the Heritage Railway Stations Protection Act 1991 under monument protection provided. It is an example of the ingenuity of the designing architects of the CPR to supplement the standardized requirements for the construction of train stations with independent elements in a cost-effective way so that the individual train stations of the Division Points are simultaneously given architectural diversity.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Canadian Pacific Railway: Map of the system and its connections. Map of the CPR rail network as of 1914, Pool Brothers, Chicago. Raremaps.com, accessed June 28, 2016
  2. ↑ Gisli Reykdal: Dafoe, Then and Now ( Memento of the original from June 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Excerpt from the book Reflections by the Quills from 1981, accessed on June 28, 2016 (English)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.quill-lakes.com
  3. ↑ Vatnabyggd: To Icelandic Settlement in Saskatchewan. Wadena & District Museum & Gallery exhibition on the Virtual Museum of Canada website, accessed June 26, 2016
  4. ↑ Wynyard entry in the National Encyclopedia of Canada , accessed June 28, 2016
  5. ^ Community Profile on the city's official website, accessed June 28, 2016
  6. ↑ Overview of the stops and lines on the Greyhound website, as of spring 2016, accessed on June 28, 2016 (English)

Coordinates: 51 ° 46 ′ 19 ″  N , 104 ° 11 ′ 10 ″  W.