Windsor station (Michigan Central Railroad)

Windsor was a train station in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The station was built by the Michigan Central Railroad in 1911 and subsequently controlled by the Canada Southern Railway. The station served Canada Southern Railway and New York Central trains. Windsor also has another railroad station in town.

Windsor, ON
Windsor in 1974
General information
Location	1300 Pelletier Street, Windsor, Ontario Canada
Coordinates	42.301283°N 83.045022°W / 42.301283; -83.045022
Owned by	Canada Southern Railway
Line(s)	Canadian Pacific Railway
Platforms	1 island platform later 1 side platform
Tracks	2
Other information
Status	Destroyed by fire (1996)
History
Opened	1911
Closed	1979
Former services
Preceding station New York Central Railroad Following station Detroit toward Chicago Michigan Central Railroad Main Line Maidstone toward Buffalo Preceding station Amtrak Following station Detroit (Michigan Central) Terminus Niagara Rainbow 1974–1979 St. Thomas toward New York (Grand Central)

Through most of its decades, and into the latter 1960s, the station served New York Central passenger trains over a New York–Buffalo–Windsor–Detroit–Jackson–Chicago route: the Empire State Express and the Wolverine.[1] It also served trains bound for a slightly more northerly route east: to London, Toronto and Montreal: the New York Central-Canadian Pacific pooled train, the Canadian (later renamed the Canadian-Niagara).[2]

The last train service to this station was Amtrak's Niagara Rainbow from October 1978 to January 31, 1979.[3] The building was burnt to the ground in 1996 due to arson.