The second railway to come to Paris arrived a year later in 1854. It was at first called the Buffalo, Brantford and Goderich Railroad (BB&G). Since the Great Western railroad had bypassed Brantford, the merchants, realizing the importance of a railway, demanded rail service to Brantford. At this time the only real link Brantford had to the lake was the Grand River Canal which was slow and seasonal. In 1854 the BB&G railroad went no farther than Paris; hence we have pictures of the turn table at the junction so that the locomotives could head back to Brantford and Buffalo. Eventually in 1858 the line known now as the Buffalo and Lake Huron reached Goderich.