This cashe is located next to the old Port Hope, Lindsay and Beaverton Railway bridge foundations on the west side of the Ganaraska River. With easy vehicle access, the cashe is close to the river bank so please be carefull with small children.
This is a replacement for our first cache which was stolen, and is a plastic tub with lots of fun trades and a trackables to start it off.
Please return the cache to the exact hiding location and replace camoflage correctly.
Railway History
This railway was originally conceived as a rail link between Port Hope and Peterborough and the company was originally named The Peterborough and Port Hope Railway Company, chartered December 16, 1846. Six years elapsed and nothing was done about it. On December 18, 1854, a new charter was issued for a line of railway from Port Hope to Lindsay, with hopes of eventually extending to Lake Simcoe. It was named The Port Hope, Lindsay and Beaverton Railway Company. Although it would be quite some time before the rails were pushed beyond Lindsay, more than a year before the line opened to Beaverton, January 1, 1871, the road planned a more ambitious expansion to the waters of Georgian Bay, renaming the road The Midland Railway of Canada, on December 24, 1869.
The newly enlarged Midland Railway of Canada shortly thereafter entered into various operational arrangements with the Grand Trunk Railway. By 1884 the GTR was effectively controlling the Midland Railway and a lease arrangement was contracted in the same year. The Grand Trunk formally absorbed the Midland Railway of Canada in 1893. Much of the original line continued to operate under Canadian National Railways ownership and the line between Port Hope and Peterborough witnessed its last passenger service in 1951. This section, and many of the other sections, continued to operate, if sporadically, into the 1970s when large scale abandonments occurred. Today little of the former PHL&B, and indeed of the Midland Railway constituents, exists.