Erie Railroad
East Buffalo was a station on the Erie Railroad‘s line from Hornell to Buffalo.
Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad
The Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway also had an East Buffalo station, but I don’t know if they used the same station as the Erie or had a separate station. In 1916 they moved (from where, I don’t know) their main passenger station in Buffalo to the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western (DL&W) Railroad station in downtown Buffalo.
The line between Buffalo and Ashford was built in 1883 by the Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad and was later operated by the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway, and the Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Railroad. Passenger service on the line ended on 15 October 1955 when the B&O ended its Buffalo – Pittsburgh service. Freight service dwindled over the years and different sections of line were abandoned and removed over the years. As of 2024 only two short segments of the line were still in use – from Buffalo south to Orchard Park and from Ashford north to West Valley.
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
The DL&W had a station in East Buffalo, though I don’t know the exact location.
New York Central East Buffalo Union Station
The New York Central had a station in East Buffalo that was built in 1874 near the site of the current Buffalo Central Terminal. This was a Union Station that served both New York Central and Lake Shore and Michigan Southern trains. The Buffalo Morning Express newspaper on September 8, 1873 described this station as:
The Union Depot’s shape was that of a parallelogram, consisting of a main structure with two wings. The main building was two stories high with a mansard roof, the stories being 18, 16, and 11 feet in height respectively. Its dimensions were 160 by 40 feet, the wings being 45 by 55 feet, jutting out in front, one story high, with a flat roof, the entire length of the building being 250 feet. The ediface was constructed of the best pressed brick, with trimmings of Williamsville Limestone.
It contained the usual amenities of waiting rooms, eating rooms, and ticket and railroad offices, it was at the time considered too far out from Buffalo’s geographic population center, about 2 1/2 miles. It was never popular with travelers and abandoned in a few short years in favor of Exchange Street Station in downtown Buffalo.
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