Halifax

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Halifax Subdivision Mile 0 on Canadian National's Bedford Subdivision

• Next station west: Armdale

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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  Map of Halifax North Street Station, 1874

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  Halifax circa 1890s.

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  Halifax circa 1890s.

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  Halifax Deepwater Terminal Yard, with DAR apple train, 1925.

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  The DAR's Lord Nelson Hotel in Halifax as depicted in the DAR's 1936 Time Table.

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  No. 2511 at Halifax in August 1949 after arriving with Train No. 96.

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  No. 2511 at Halifax in August 1949 after arriving with Train No. 96.

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  Train No. 99 at Halifax on July 7, 1954 ready to go to Yarmouth.

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  Halifax passenger terminal and freight yard on July 21, 1975.

External links

• "Canadian National Railway Employee Timetable Bedford Subdivision April 28, 1974", p. 16, Railways of Canada Archives
• Two DAR passenger trains at the Halifax Intercolonial North Street Station, 1912, showing the train shed - Canada Science and Technology Museum.