This notice has been updated
Station Road in Huntsville, from 79m southwest of Main Street West to 50m southwest of Burrow Pit Lane, will be periodically down to one lane for the reinstatement of the train platform.
The work is scheduled to start on March 5, 2026, starting at 7 a.m. and ending on September 15, 2026, at 5 p.m. Local traffic will be permitted. Detours will be marked as needed.
The former Huntsville Station will not be affected by this work. Ontario Northland has announced that a train shelter will be constructed. The shelters will be lit and heated, have next-train arrival information, and offer Wi-Fi access.
From the Town of Huntsville
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Of course Sandy
The Huntsville train station was completely renovated, equipped in every way, including a washroom, benches, lockers, a phone and more, with wonderful enlarged black and white photos of the history of the station.
All of this was accomplished by The Huntsville Train Station Society after sixteen years of dedicated work including help from countless volunteers. and generous local businesses.
But sadly the beautiful historic station was sold.
So something new will be built without a washroom.
Martina Schroer
former secretary of the HTSS
The CN guys are already on the ‘platform’ project. No thanks to Huntsville council and a past mayor. Maybe a bit of a moan on my part, but the loss of the station was a bailout and nothing more. The ‘bad air’ that did it in was just fumes off the heap the council was spreading.
I only remember being to the train station a couple of times as a kid, but once was quite memorable. My Gran and Gramps had ordered a new ‘cook’ stove. I say cook stove, but it was the only heat in the house. I think it was a change from the old Findlay to a newer version of the same. If you had a Findlay, you had a stove. And that old stove turned out some great food. ‘Though most of us I’m sure were partial to our Grand’s cooking. No matter what kind of stove.
The news came through that the new stove had arrived at the station. Gran flagged down her cousin who delivered gravel around town. He had a truck that might get the stove home. Man! I sure wanted to go on that trip, but my Mother said No! At first. After much sustained yelping, she gave in. So we headed back to town to get the stove.
It was sitting on the station platform wrapped in about a days cut from any decent saw mill. I stayed well back as the men slid it onto the back of the truck. Understand, this was a post war International gravel truck and not one of the monsters of today. I don’t remember if the load got chained down or not, but not likely.
Arriving back at Gran’s, the obvious problem was how to unload the stove. I was six or seven and Gran never weighed 90 pounds. This was no lightweight package. But, it was only a problem in my Gran’s mind. Bert just backed the truck against the bank by the clothes-line and dumped the crate out. It settled with a good solid thud. Gran did a series of “Oh my. Oh my. Oh my” s. In her mind, she must have imagine the stove was shattered. I’m sure I never even thought about it.
The rest of her afternoon must have been a turmoil. Wondering what Gramps was going to say about the broken stove. You don’t just dump a few hundred pounds of cast iron out of a dump truck. Me. I just wanted all that packing crate for my fort on the hill. Behind the big rock under the oak tree.
When Dad and Gramp and Ralph got organized that night, Gran must have still worried about the stove. In her mind, it must surely be shattered. But once the prybars had stripped it of it’s cocoon, there wasn’t even a bit of enamel chipped. After a bit, the men wrestled the new stove into the house and got it put together. I’m sure Gran was still worrying that a piece might fall off. But it all turned out fine. And I got a pile of building materials, Sweet.
I never told anyone about the stove and I know Gran didn’t. It was a secret. Her’s and mine. And the old stove got saved and became the ‘cookstove’ in our hunting camp when it was built. A second opportunity to turn out great food. And to be the only heat in the house.
To bad the station never got that second chance.
There must be a public toilet as part of a train shelter, as anyone who has ever been waiting for a train (often late) knows. I’m sure the old station had one.
Good! at last! Who pays for this?
Hi Susan,
Nothing will change with the old station. It is privately owned. A train shelter will be constructed. The shelters will be lit, heated, have next train arrival information and access to WIFI, according to Ontario Northland.
Can Doppler share more information please? Is the old station being refurbished, thereby evicting the barbecue restaurant? A new build nearby? “Reinstatement of the platform” needs some clarification.