#wesport

Christian Siriano & Kyle Smith’s Modernist Refuge,

Wesport, Connecticut, United States,

“Train Service Will Be Cut in Half,” Kingston Whig-Standard. February 15, 1933. Page 12.  ---- Brockville-Westport Service to Operate Every Other Day ---- BROCKVILLE, Feb. 1 - Effective at an early date, a reduction in train service on the Westport sub-division of the Canadian National Railway to proposed by the management of the company, which plans to substitute a three-days-per-week service between Brockville and Westport for the present daily-except-Sunday service. It is understood that the change will go into effect on February 19 and that the train will be operated on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. The alteration follows abandonment last summer of the gasoline "Jitney” service between Brockville and Westport and is said to be dictated by declining revenues from the operation of trains over the line. 

The change will drastically affect the handling of mails for Lyn, Athens, Soperton Delta, Phllipsville, Elgin, Crosby, Newborn, and Westport stations on the line and the proposal is being made that the conveyance of the mails for these centres with others outlying such as Lyndhurst, Harlem, and Chantry be handed over to the Anglin bus line which carries on a dally service between Brockville and Westport. Some months ago an Independent mall service for the village of Lyn from Brockville was inaugurated and more recently. It has been arranged that the courier from Toledo, instead of meeting B & W train at Forthton, shall continue into Brockville in order to carry the mails daily except Sunday for Frankville and Toledo. The courier on the Brockville to Athens mail route also now carries a lock bog for the latter village which thus boasts an improved twice-a-day postal service.