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Kentville Repair Shop
Kentville Paint / Repair Shop
The Windsor and Annapolis Railway built a paint shop at Kentville to the east of the Kentville Car Shop. It was replaced in 1928 with a new building to the west between the station and the Car Shop, with the frame being erected in May 1928[1] It was covered sometime in the 1930s with green "insulbrick" shingles, and later became known at the Repair Shop. It survived until the last years of the Kentville Railyard and was demolished in the early 1990s. Just to the north of the repair shop was a set of tracks used for many years as the Kentville Scrap Line, where retired rolling stock awaited scraping.
Gallery
Kentville Station and Yard with car shop and paint shop, July 27, 1871.
Bird's Eve View of Kentville Nova Scotia 1879: detail showing W&AR Kentville Car Shop at left and the Kentville Paint Shop at right, 1879.
Detail of Kentville Fire Insurance Map showing the Kentville Station, Kentville Repair Shop, Kentville Ice House, railway tennis courts and the "Back Road" spur, Aug. 1921.
Coach No. 6 now numbered No. 851 as an MOW service car by the Repair Shop in Kentville circa 1930s.
Tool Car 852, ex Postal Express Car 39 by the Kentville Repair Shop
Ruins of the Kentville Car Shop after the Oct. 21, 1937 fire, with the Kentville Repair Shop in background, likely taken Oct. 21 to 22, 1937.
Cab of No. 44 & No. 556 in front of the Kentville Repair Shop in 1938.
Locomotive 24 in the scrap line behind the Kentville Repair Shop with the Kentville Station in the background, circa 1939.
The Repair Shop showing its western entrance seen in the distance to the right, taken from the Coaling Tower, circa late 1940s, early 1950s.
North side of the repair shop in July 1938 with locomotive No.33 in the scrapline.
Track Crane No. 802, boom car No. 798, wheel car No. 31069 and the end, car No. 403112 in front of the Kentville Repair Shop on March 30, 1946.
Track Crane No. 802, boom car No. 798 and wheel set car No. 31069 in front of the repair shop on May 2, 1947.
Business Car Nova Scotia beside the Kentville Repair Shop in August 1949.
Locomotive No. 2627 with Train No. 95 switching at the Kentville Railyard with the Kentville Repair Shop and Kentville Station, August 1955.
Nova Scotia, at Kentville Railyard parked beside the repair shop in Kentville, NS on August 27, 1956.
Mixed Train for Kingsport leaving yard. Visible is business car Nova Scotia beside the repair shop and the coaling tower in Kentville on August 28, 1956.
No. 1050 at Kentville Station August 1, 1958. Note No. 1397 and No. 608 in background in front of repair shop.
The Kentville Repair Shop, May 1959.
6616 Buffet Parlor car, with the Kentville Repair Shop in the background.
Track crane No. 414324, boom car No. 412722 and crew car No. 405809, ex DAR 879 by the Kentville Repair Shop in Kentville in August 1961.
Kentville Repair Shop with Kentville Station to right, 1967.
Kentville Repair Shop with Kentville Station to the right, August 17, 1977.
No. 9062 rests near the Kentville Car Shop with the repair shop visible to the side, no date.
Ex-Tender now MOW Water Car No. 415786 at Kentville beside the Kentville Repair Shop on August 10, 1971.
No. 8132 at Kentville August 1974 beside the Kentville Car Shop with the Kentville Repair Shop behind, August 1974.
Kentville Railyard with the Kentville Coaling Tower, Kentville Car Shop and the Kentville Repair Shop, October 1990.
References and Footnotes
External Links
- ↑ "The Railway Herald and Labor Man's Forum" Halifax Chronicle Herald, May 11, 1928, page 8, Carl Riff Notes
