London and Port Stanley Railway

Electric Interurban #14

February, 1921

London, 1950's

Arriving back in

St. Thomas, Fall, 1999

     The City of London assumed full control of the operation of the London and Port Stanley Railway in 1914 and proceeded to electrify the railway following a vote of London’s taxpayers the year before. In 1915, the first passenger motor cars, numbers 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10, were delivered from the Jewett Car Company of Ohio. Due to the overwhelming success of the railway, the city ordered two more cars in November of 1916 at a cost of $33,665.70 each. At a length of 71' 7", about 10 feet longer than the first five cars, car #12, and the one in our collection, car #14, were delivered to London in early 1917.

     After being retired at the end of passenger service in 1957, the London Railway Commission donated car #14 to the Canadian Railway Museum in St. Constant, Quebec in 1962. It remained there until the fall of 1999 when it was donated to the Elgin County Railway Museum.

     Car 14 has just started to be restored by museum volunteers.