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THE GRAND VALLEY RAILWAY severely injured passengers to his home. A less serious accident happened on August 26, 1908. The Star-Transcript reported that a car 'while rounding a curve jumped the track and ploughed for ten or fifteen feet along the ground. Nobody was hurt.' On December 27, 1908, an unusual accident terrified a group of passengers. According to the Star-Transcript: ... on a car coming from Gait a panic occurred. The car was crowded and suddenly a fuse wire blew out giving a loud report and filling the car with smoke. The lady passengers got frightened ... and put their fists through the window, and in fact a woman who had a baby with her threw it out the window. The passengers were soon quieted down. The Paris council was concerned about the dangerous condition of the line and the lack of comfortable stations. In 1908, together with other concerned councils, it presented a memorial to the railway commissioners 'asking them to compel the owners of the G.V.R. to erect proper shelter and platforms at their station ... and calling attention to the bad state of the road....' Despite this, not until 1914, when the City of Brantford bought out the company, was a decent station built in Paris. It was on the northwest corner of William and Willow Streets, close to the raceway. During the same year, improvements were made to the roadbed and better cars were put into service. The G.V.R. periodically irritated its customers by being very slow in clearing the line after a heavy snowfall. Having no plough it had to depend upon shovelling by work-gangs. During February, 1905, for example, the line from Paris to Brantford was frequently blocked. One evening, 40 stranded passengers had to be transported to Brantford in a four-horse sleigh. In February 1912, the line from Paris to Gait was closed for a month because of snow. The Paris council protested against the lack of service. Since many parts of the right-of-way were not fenced, the cars occasionally hit a horse, a cow, or a pig. For instance, in July 1905, the Star-Transcript reported that a car had struck and killed a cow: 'How the animal was run down in broad daylight is a mystery to many.' With all its faults, the G.V.R. was, for a time, a financial success. Although in 1910 the line from Paris to Gait had been sold to the Lake Erie and Northern Railway for $30,000 the number of passengers carried during that year was 189,292, and the gross receipts, $30,000. However, increasing competition from the Lake Erie and Northern and from automobiles finally made the railway unprofitable. In 1925, the loss was $8,600, and the line needed repairs