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TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATIONS itt~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I 1~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Paris Junction Station note third rail. The two railways -- the Great Western and the Buffalo-Goderich - used the same station at the Junction. The trains came in on both sides of the building. A refreshment room was established for travellers who had to wait for connections; and around the station a number of hotels were built to give bar-service and over- night accommodation. The gauge of the Great Western was five-feet six-inches. In i866, a third rail was added so that American freight cars could be pulled along the line. In 1871, the present-day gauge was adopted, and the third rail was removed. Incidentally, until 1883, Paris was still using a sun-dial and the town bell to set its own standard of time. And so were hundreds of other Canadian villages, towns and cities. This practice made railway time-tables quite confusing, and led to the railwav companies' supporting the introduction of time-zones, as proposed by Sir Sandford Fleming. After 1883, Paris time was the same as that of other stations along the line, and the telegraph rather than the sun dial was used to set clocks. The Great Western and the Buffalo-Goderich were united in 1882, when they were both taken over by the Grand Trunk. Until 1902, the main line of the Grand Trunk from Hamilton ran through Copetown and Harrisburg to Paris Junction. But about 1900oo, a group of Brantford citizens, having heard that there were plans to double-track the main line, began an agitation to have the main line re-routed so that it would run along the branch line from Harrisburg to Brantford, and then along the old Buffalo-Goderich 225,