Coldbrook Station

Coldbrook Station

The first Coldbrook station was located at the west end of Coldbrook on the road to Lakeville but was destroyed by fire in its first few years of service. It was replaced by a second station built further to the east on Lovett Road. This small station appears to have been a long surviving example of the original W&A small gable passenger and freight stations as it remained in use with few changes into the 1950s. Henry Porter was the first station agent. William F. Newcomb was the second agent serving from 1907 to 1908. He was replaced by Irene Sanford who was agent from 1908 until 1931. Another female agent at Coldbrook was Margery Mason who was station agent in 1931. In that year, declining traffic due to the Great Depression led the DAR to close the Coldbrook Station. It became a flag stop with a part time caretaker but no agent. As a flag stop, mail was handled by a Railway Post Office mail hook used to catch mail bags from passing Railway Post Office Cars. The last mail train was on August 14, 1956. The last passenger boarded in January 1990 when VIA service was cancelled in the Annapolis Valley and the track was removed soon after.

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  Coldbrook Station in August 1949

References

Marie Bishop, Memories of Coldbrook, Kings Historical Society, p. 13, 15

External Links

A remarkable 1956 photo of the Coldbrook, NS mail crane in operation, "Railway Mail Service", Old Time Trains