The Northern and Pacific Junction Railway (N&PJ) is a historic railway located in northern Ontario, Canada. It connected the Northern Railway of Canada's endpoint in Gravenhurst to the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) at Nipissing Junction, near North Bay. The N&PJ provided an almost straight line north-south route from Toronto to the transcontinental line, competing with a similar line of the Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) a short distance to the west.

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The railway was incorporated in 1881 as the Northern, North-Western, and Sault Ste. Marie Railway Company,^[1] changing its name to N&PJ in 1883.^[2] The railway was acquired by the Northern Railway of Canada and the Hamilton and North-Western Railway in 1883.^[3]

Construction was commenced at Gravenhurst in 1885 and completed to a connection with the CPR in 1886, at which time the line was leased to its owners.^[4] Following the amalgamation of its owners with the Grand Trunk Railway in 1888,^[5] the N&PJ was merged with the GTR in 1892,^[6] which later became part of the Canadian National Railways.

Principal stations along this route, from Gravenhurst are:

• Bracebridge
• Utterson
• Huntsville
• Novar
• Scotia Junction (connection to Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway)
• Emsdale
• Burk's Falls
• Sundridge
• South River
• Trout Creek
• Powassan
• Lake Nosbonsing Road (formerly Nosbonsing and Nipissing Railway)
• Callander
• Nipissing Junction (original 1886 connection with CPR, to North Bay station).