Horton Landing

Horton Landing, Nova Scotia

Mile 45.93 from Windsor Junction on the Halifax Subdivision (Mile 61.15 from Halifax)

• Next Station East: Avonport
• Next Station West: Grand Pre

Facilities & Features

• Horton Landing Station
• 1472 feet long Passing track in 1969
• Gaspereaux River Bridge

Description & History

Passenger trains ceased stopping in June 1980.

Gallery

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  Locomotive No. 24 with an westbound passenger train crossing the Gaspereaux River Bridge in Horton Landing, Aug 24, 1902.

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  Horton tracks and snow canyon during the famous winter of 1905.

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  C.P.R. track profile drawing showing Horton Landing, Mar. 18, 1918.

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  Gaspereaux River Bridge with the Horton Landing approach tracks looking eastward on July 31, 1958.

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  Topographic map from Kentville to Hortons Landing circa 1956.

References & Footnotes

• Alexander MacNab, Windsor and Annapolis Railway, Report of Alexander MacNab Nov 1, 1873
• 1969 Memorandum of General Information