Shortline freight railway based in London, Ontario, Canada
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Ontario Southland Railway
OSRX #505, an MLW RS-23, at Guelph in 2009
Overview
Headquarters
London, Ontario
Reporting mark
OSRX
Locale
Southern Ontario, Canada
Dates of operation
1992–Present
Technical
Track gauge
4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Other
Website
http://osrinc.ca/
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Ontario Southland Railway
Legend
St. Thomas Subdivision
mi
CPKC Galt Subdivision
0.0
Woodstock
0.7
CN Dundas Subdivision (MP 50.8)
4.0
Beachville
to CNR Dundas Subdivision
8.9
Ingersoll
OSR Port Burwell Subdivision
TFT Global
CAMI Automotive
Sylvite siding
13.8
Putnam
Highway 401
Belmont Farm Supply
24.8
Belmont
Messenger Freight Services
A. Schulman Canada Ltd
Dowler-Karn
Highway 3
32.0
Wabash Transfer
32.3
CN Talbot Subdivision
& Cayuga Spur (MP 117.8)
32.7
end of track
33.6
St. Thomas
mi
Port Burwell Subdivision
mi
OSR St. Thomas Subdivision
0.0
Ingersoll
Highway 401
4.50
OSR Salford Shop
Cargill
7.7
Mount Elgin
12.1
Ostrander
Kissner
15.2
Tillsonburg
Johnson Controls
17.5
Loop Line transfer
future transfer siding
CN Cayuga Spur
mi
The Ontario Southland Railway, Inc. is an independently held short line operator. The company was founded in 1992 to purchase 27 kilometres (17 mi) of track between Tillsonburg and Ingersoll, Ontario from the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). In 2009, a second line was added, as 51 kilometres (32 mi) of CPR track from Woodstock to St. Thomas, Ontario were integrated into the system. In 2015, Ontario Southland began leasing the ex-Canadian National Cayuga Subdivision between St. Thomas and Delhi, Ontario, which had been abandoned by its former shortline operator the St. Thomas and Eastern Railway in 2013.[1]
OSR also operated the Guelph Junction Railway until 28 August 2020 when operations were transferred to the Goderich–Exeter Railway.[2]
^McCallum, Ian (5 November 2015). "After two-year closure, wind turbine blades will turn around fortunes of St. Thomas to Tillsonburg rail line". St Thomas Times-Journal. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
^"Digest: Guelph Junction set for change of operators".
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