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Image:HalifaxStation1878.jpg|Map of Halifax North Street Station, 1874
 
Image:1903-LANDOFEVANGELINE-P23.jpg|Halifax circa 1890s.
 
Image:1903-LANDOFEVANGELINE-P23.jpg|Halifax circa 1890s.
 
Image:1903-LANDOFEVANGELINE-P24.jpg|Halifax circa 1890s.
 
Image:1903-LANDOFEVANGELINE-P24.jpg|Halifax circa 1890s.
Image:Apple Train Halifax 1925.jpg|Halifax Deepwater Terminal Yard, 1925 with a DAR apple train including box cars [[DAR001322|No. 1322]] and [[DAR001288|No. 1288]].
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Image:Apple Train Halifax 1925.jpg|Halifax Deepwater Terminal Yard, with DAR apple train, 1925.
 
Image:Lordnelson.jpg|The DAR's [[Lord Nelson Hotel]] in Halifax as depicted in the DAR's 1936 Time Table.
 
Image:Lordnelson.jpg|The DAR's [[Lord Nelson Hotel]] in Halifax as depicted in the DAR's 1936 Time Table.
 
Image:DAR2511c.jpg|[[DAR2511|No. 2511]] at [[Halifax]] in August 1949 after arriving with [[Train No. 96]].
 
Image:DAR2511c.jpg|[[DAR2511|No. 2511]] at [[Halifax]] in August 1949 after arriving with [[Train No. 96]].

Revision as of 21:50, 26 December 2011

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Halifax Subdivision Mile 0 on Canadian National's Bedford Subdivision

The DAR gained access to Halifax through running rights over 15 miles of the Bedford Subdivision of the Canadian National. This access was inherited from rights granted to the Windsor and Annapolis Railway from the Intercolonial Railway. This gave the DAR to access the large terminal station and the shipping piers of Halifax. DAR trains used the Intercolonial's North Street Station until 1919 when Canadian National shifted passenger trains to the South End where a large station was completed in 1927.

Halifax Facilities

The DAR maintained its own freight and express shed in Halifax for many years. The DAR was also a part owner of the Lord Nelson Hotel which functioned as the DAR's railway hotel in Halifax.

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