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Revision as of 21:11, 28 December 2019
Mount Denson , Nova Scotia
- Halifax Subdivision (from Windsor Junction), Mile 36.62, (from Halifax), Mile 52.43
Next Station West: Hantsport
Next Station East: Shaw's Bog
Facilities & Features
Built at first with a simple platform, 80 feet long and 12 feet wide,[1] Mount Denson eventually had a simple station shelter, about about 25' x 10-15' wide and no known windows based on image.
Description & History
A DAR locomotive, No. 556, was named after Mount Denson.[2]
Operations & Orders
Gallery
Mount Denson Station
Topographic map from Avonport to Shaws Bog circa 1956.
Article by H. B. Jefferson about the train wreck at Mount Denson; the creation of the DAR; the beginning of the Flying Bluenose and the parlour car "Haligonian", May 17, 1958.
References and Footnotes
- ↑ Alexander MacNab, Windsor and Annapolis Railway, Report of Alexander MacNab Nov 1, 1873, page 21
- ↑ Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, p. 351, 352
