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A teenager is charged with impaired driving after a Canada Day crash into a storage building at a children’s miniature railway in Strathroy-Caradoc.
No one was hurt, but the Sleepy Hollow Railway, a pint-sized, narrow-gauge rail line for kids, was closed indefinitely in the fallout of the early-morning crash into its railway house.
“Due to unfortunate circumstances, the railroad will be closed until further notice. We will keep this page updated,” the Strathroy Model Railroad Engineers, a group that operates the miniature railway, wrote in a Facebook post on Monday.
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Emergency crews responded Monday about 3:30 a.m. to the amusement site, located at 334 Metcalfe St., where a vehicle had struck the building, Strathroy-Caradoc police said.
Officers located the suspected occupants of the vehicle and arrested one person, who was charged with impaired driving, and impounded the vehicle.
The accused, whose licence was automatically suspended for 90 days, is under age 18 and no further information will be released, police said.
No estimate of the damage was given.
Built in 2014, the Sleepy Hollow Railway House serves as a home for the little engine and rail cars that operate on the miniature railway.
The station, located at the Fair Grounds Recreation Complex, features a ticket window and a loading platform.
Once located in Alexandra Park, the Sleepy Hallow Railway was moved to its existing location after extensive flooding caused major damage and disruption to the operation during the summer of 2013. The railway’s rebirth the following year was aided by business and community groups and was filmed for an episode of Giver, a program about revitalizing play spaces, on public broadcaster TV Ontario’s TVO Kids.
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