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| Date | Statement | Source | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1888-02-20 | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company have a gang of men at work removing the lumber and freight cars ditched below Greenfield on Friday morning. The damaged cars will be brought to Ottawa and repaired in the car shops. | Ottawa Journal 1888-02-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...) | |
| 1893-01 | Recalled in 1931: in a January 1893 blizzard the Canada Atlantic passenger train for Rouse's Point, with Phil Roy at the throttle of its one remaining engine, "struck its first real difficulty" at "Douglas Cut, between Greenfield and Alexandria", where the cut was full of drift and the train went through. "However, half a mile farther on came Buffalo cut, a deeper cut", and there Conductor Tom Lamplough stopped the train when it was found "the whole train was off the track and had been running on the ties since the time it left the last cut. The rails had spread." The baggageman was sent back toward Alexandria, "4 miles away", and the brakeman toward Greenfield, to flag; the crew used iron "dogs" to get the coaches and engine back on the rails by next morning. Short of water, Roy ran the engine into the drift at Buffalo Cut so that section men could shovel snow into the hot engine to melt. A snowplow that left Ottawa the same afternoon left the track at Maxville. Filed on Greenfield at the operator's direction. Buffalo Cut and Douglas Cut have no entities; the item places them between Greenfield and Alexandria, Buffalo Cut about four miles from Alexandria. The Laurier Avenue bridge casting failure from the same item is filed on the Maria Street Bridge. | Ottawa Citizen 1931-01-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1900-11-10 | Mr. M. Guffney, engineer of the way-freight train said that the accident occurred between Greenfield and Maxville. He said that when he had noticed the ballast train, he had whistled for brakes. ... A. Wright, fireman on ballast train, stated that his train was pulling out of the siding onto the main line. He did not see the way freight until it was quite near. Whyte did not jump and was caught between the engine and tender. See the Maxville fact for the full account of the accident that killed Jacques White; the way-freight engineer places it between Greenfield and Maxville. | Ottawa Citizen 1900-11-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1908-08-29 | A westbound freight train of the Canadian Atlantic, which passed Alexandria at two o'clock this afternoon, met with a mishap about two miles east of Greenfield, which derailed nine loaded cars and so damaged the tracks that traffic was tied up and the line was not cleared until Monday morning. The train was travelling at a fair speed when a rail broke, throwing the fifth car behind the engine off the tracks; eight more followed, the rails being torn up for some distance before the train could be stopped. None of the crew was injured and the cars were not badly damaged. A wrecking gang was sent out as soon as possible. Passengers were transferred at the scene of the wreck to specials sent from Ottawa and Montreal so that passenger traffic was little delayed. The source itself still calls the company 'the Canadian Atlantic' in 1908, three years after the GTR takeover. | Eastern Ontario Review 1908-09-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1937-01-20 | Mrs. Duncan John Roy MacDonald, aged about 60, "was instantly killed at 10.45 o'clock this morning" when a C.N.R. passenger train struck her as she walked on the railway tracks near her home, "about one and a half miles east of Greenfield station". According to the train crew, "her back turned to the westbound train", the accident happened on a curve. | Ottawa Citizen 1937-01-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1964-04-08≥ | By 8 April 1964 (the issue date), the paper reported: "A speeding transcontinental train, 'whistling its head off,' slammed into a one-ton stake truck Tuesday afternoon, instantly killing a Greenfield couple", John Morpaw, 69, and his wife Helena, 67, at a crossing eight miles west of Alexandria at 1.15 p.m. The 11-car CNR Ottawa-Montreal Super-Continental, at 65 miles an hour, carried the truck more than half a mile; "There are no signals at the crossing other than a wooden warning sign". An inquest was pending. The dispatch is from Alexandria; the item places the crossing at Greenfield, eight miles west. | Ottawa Citizen 1964-04-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |