Whtby's second rallway station.was the Canadian National Rallway lime at the foot of ByronStret, west of Brock street, at wbat was then known as Whtby Jun- etion. This was where the feeder Mne went north to Brooklin, Port Perry and Lindsay via The Port Whitby-Port Perry Railway that was commonly known as the "ýNip and Tuck" orignally constructed in 1903, this building now sits at the corner of Victoria and Henry-Streets and is used, in tis original state, as the Whitby Arts Station Gallery . Whitby and the railway CONTDUFROM PG. 7 up the line to Manchester and a place called Cobaconk? The railway provided mobility for those who wan- ted to travel to Montreal or Toronto, to New 'York City or beyond. For several years the provincial government had the Ontario Hospital under construction at its Lake On- tario site just over a mile away. They started in 1914 and continued uintil the mnid- twenties, after World War I. A spur line frorn the station to the hospital saw heavy use bringing in coal, building supplies and other buJ.k items. In due course, it became clear that the hospital could be served best and cheap by truck transport. The spur- line feil into dispair and it was remnoved .to make way for the county jail on Vic- torila Street in the old Port Whitby community. The Port Whitby and Port Perry Rallway Any story of Whitby in the railway age would be in- complete without somne reference to Whitby's own littie feeder line that ran uphil from Port Whitby to Port Pery starting in 1871 af- ter a presïtigous sod turning by Prince Arthur, who later became King Edward VI. It was organized by such Whitby luminarles as J.Hamer Greenwood, Chester Draper, Sherriff Reynolds, Thomas Paxton and Ed'ward Major. The first president of the railway company was Joseph Bigelow who was also the first Reeve of Port Pery. The econimic purpose of the "Nip and Tuck" as it was known familiarly by ail, in this area was to capture the horse drawn grain traffic from around Lake Scugog and beyond for Whitby Har- bour. It was successfull in the beginning but eventually trucks recaptured the trade for the Centre Road (high- way 12) and the littie feeder line withered and passed away into local history. SlrmpEpplEr SKLAR FURNITURE CON GRA TULA TES THE TOWN 0F WHITBY O)NITS 125th ANNIVERSAR Y