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Gainsborough Road (Fourth Concession Road of London Tp.); north of this point, Cameron Sideroad continued northward (3.51 km within the post 1993 city limits) to Highway 7. Hutton Sideroad passed under the Canadian National Railway tracks via a one-lane subway located slightly west of the current wider subway, which was constructed in the late 1950s. At some point in the middle of the 1960s, Sarnia Road was realigned to continue westward from Hutton Road along the part of Third Concession known up until then as Springfort Road, and Hutton Road was extended northward along the former section of Sarnia Road and Cameron Road.
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