Orangeville Brampton Railway

• ARR Reporting Marks - OBRY.
• Official Website

Orangeville Brampton Railway Overview

The Orangeville-Brampton Railway is a 34-mile long short line railway between Orangeville and Streetsville Junction in Mississauga, Ontario. It passes through the City of Brampton and the Town of Caledon.

At Streetsville, the OBRY connects with the Canadian Pacific Railway Galt Subdivision. At Brampton, it crosses the Canadian National Railway Halton Subdivision at grade, but no interchange traffic is handled. North of Brampton, the railway winds through the Niagara Escarpment and is notable for a curved, 1,145-foot long trestle over the Credit River and Forks of the Credit Road, near Belfountain in Caledon. The Town of Orangeville purchased the Mississauga-Orangeville trackage between Mile 2.2 to Mile 34.6 from CPR on September 29, 2000 to ensure the line's continued existence. The line is now managed by the Orangeville Brampton Rail Development Corporation.

The railway's main purpose is to service several industries in Orangeville and Brampton. However, between the fall of 2004 and spring of 2018, OBRY operated a public excursion train, marketed as Credit Valley Explorer, between Orangeville and Snelgrove (the northern edge of Brampton).

In early 2018, it was announced that after years of operation for the town, Cando would be discontinuing its contract to operate the line effective at the end of June 2018, and as a result, a new operator was being sought by the town to run the line. Facing an uncertain future, the Credit Valley Explorer made its final runs in February 2018, and the three passenger cars were sold off to the Waterloo Central Railway.

Freight trains on the line are now operated by Trillium Railway (since July 2018) under contract for OBRY and make weekday round trips (on Tuesdays and Fridays) between Orangeville and Mississauga.

OBRY interchanges with CP at Streetsville Junction, Ontario.

On Dec. 18, 2020, it was announced the railroad would shut down on Dec. 31, 2021.

That last train would run Dec. 17, 2021. The railroad is now defunct.

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