Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway
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The Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway (TG&B) was a railway company which operated in Ontario, Canada in the years immediately following the Canadian Confederation of 1867. It connected two rural counties, Grey County and Bruce County, with the provincial capital of Toronto to the east.
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Headquarters | Toronto |
Reporting mark | TG&BR |
Locale | Southern Ontario, Canada |
Dates of operation | 1868ā1883 |
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Track gauge | 4 ft 8+1ā2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge from 1881 |
Previous gauge | 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) until 1881 |
The TG&B suffered from engineering and financial problems throughout its existence, and its struggle to finance a gauge conversion from narrow to standard gauge led to a takeover by bondholders and subsequent acquisition by the Canadian Pacific Railway through its proxy, the Ontario and Quebec Railway. The bulk of the former TG&B lines were managed under Canadian Pacific's Bruce Division, which had its divisional point at Orangeville, the junction of the original TG&B lines to Owen Sound and Teeswater.