Marmora Railway and Mining Company | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-02-05

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
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00:02:15 1 History
00:02:24 1.1 Prince Edward County Railway
00:03:41 1.2 Expansion to Coe Hill
00:05:59 1.3 Further routes and branches
00:08:13 1.4 Leasing, purchase and abandonment
00:10:35 1.5 Conversion to rail-trail
00:12:25 2 Route



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The Central Ontario Railway (COR) was a former railway that ran north from Trenton, Ontario to service a number of towns, mines and sawmills. The railway originally formed as the Prince Edward County Railway in 1879, running between Picton and Trenton, where it connected with the Grand Trunk Railway that ran between Montreal and Toronto. After being purchased by a group of investors and receiving a new charter to build northward, the railway renamed as the COR in 1882 and the company started building towards the gold fields at Eldorado and newly discovered iron fields in Coe Hill.
On reaching Coe Hill in 1884, the mine was found to have low grade ore, nearly bankrupting the company. Expansion continued to other mining areas around Bancroft, along with two wholly owned subsidiary lines, the Ontario, Belmont and Northern Railway, later known as the Marmora Railway, and the Bessemer and Barry's Bay Railway. The later was supposed to connect to the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway (OA&PS) at Barry's Bay, but these plans were shelved. A new route to the OA&PS was selected to Whitney, just outside Algonquin Provincial Park. Construction on this final portion reached Maynooth in 1907 but was never completed, and the line ultimately ended in the now abandoned town of Wallace, about 25 kilometres south of Whitney.
The COR was taken over by Mackenzie and Mann in 1910, along with the Irondale, Bancroft and Ottawa Railway which was connected to the COR north of Bancroft in July 1910. Both lines were then merged into their Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) in 1911. After CNoR was nationalized 1918, the lines became part of the Canadian National Railways (CN) system in 1923. CN operated the COR as the Maynooth Subdivision. Sections of the line north of Maynooth were lifted in 1965, and the entire rest of the line in 1985. All of the side branches had been abandoned much earlier, typically when the ore deposits dried up.
Much of the route of the COR has been re-purposed as a multi-use recreational rail trail, which has a variety of names depending on its location, with the Hastings Heritage Trail being a prominent part.