Napanee railway station

Napanee
Napanee station building in the early 1900s
Location	301 John Street Napanee, Ontario Canada
Coordinates	44°15′13.3″N 76°57′15.5″W / 44.253694°N 76.954306°W / 44.253694; -76.954306Coordinates: 44°15′13.3″N 76°57′15.5″W / 44.253694°N 76.954306°W / 44.253694; -76.954306
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Shelter
Parking	Yes
Disabled access	Yes
Services
Preceding station   Via Rail   Following station Belleville toward Toronto Toronto–Ottawa Kingston toward Ottawa Toronto–Montreal Kingston toward Montreal

Napanee railway station in Napanee, Ontario, Canada is served by Via Rail trains running from Toronto to Ottawa and Montreal. The 1856 limestone railway station is an unstaffed but heated shelter with telephones and washrooms, which opens at least half an hour before a train arrives. The shelter and platform are wheelchair-accessible.

Napanee station is one of originally 34 first generation Grand Trunk Railway stations in Ontario from the same era as the opening of the line. Nine still exist, of which three remain in active service. The station building is owned and maintained by the municipality.

The original Grand Trunk stations were stone buildings constructed during or immediately after the 1856 opening of the GTR (now CN) mainline from Montréal to Toronto. Nine survive today, including a pair at Napanee and Ernestown in Lennox and Addington County which were built from Kingston Limestone using similar design. The first generation "Type C" Grand Trunk stations (small stations in Napanee, Ernestown, Brighton) were stone rectangular buildings with four chimneys and five bays for arched windows on the long side and two on each end, under a pitched slate roof with elongated eaves and soffits supported by end rafters and triangular brackets.

At the time of the railway's construction, Bath, Ontario was a bustling lakefront manufacturing village with 400-1000 people. The rails led to a shift in population from Bath (which was not on the GTR mainline) to Napanee (well served by the York Road, Napanee River and Grand Trunk Railway). The railway also led to a shift in population away from small towns to larger centres such as Belleville and Kingston.