Windsor

Windsor and the Avon River Bridge - date unknown, probably late 1940s, 1950s.

Mile 31.60 from Windsor Junction on the Halifax Subdivision (Mile 47.32 from Halifax)

Mile 0 Subdivision Truro

Elevation: 29 feet above sea level

• Next Station West: Falmouth
• Next Station East (to Truro): Dimock's
• Next Station East (to Halifax): Pembertons

Facilities & Features

• Windsor Station
• Windsor Freight Shed
• Windsor Railyard
• Windsor Enginehouse
• Windsor Track Scale
• Windsor Water Tower
• Windsor Diesel Fueling
• Windsor Wharves
• Avon River Bridge

Commerce & Industry

Windsor Wear textile factory

Colonial Fertilizer Company

L. A. Armstrong Apple Warehouse

B. Sexton Apple Warehouse

Gallery

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  1918 Track Chart of Windsor

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  Bird's Eve View of Windsor Nova Scotia 1878 showing the town of Windsor with Windsor Station centre and the Avon River Bridge in the lower right, 1878.

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  The Windsor Enginehouse and the circular structure covering the turntable, with the Windsor Cotton Mill in background, circa 1884.

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  Windsor & Annapolis No. 10, later DAR No. 12 & train at the Windsor Station, circa 1891.

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  A passenger train running in the street at Windsor, sometime prior to July, 1905.

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  A freight train running in the street at Windsor.

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  Gypsum quarry spurs in the Windsor, Dimock's and Newport areas, from geological map, 1909.

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  Locomotive No. 380 with crew on the turntable at the Windsor Enginehouse, 1912.

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  Windsor Wharves with DAR gypsum cars and box cars in foreground and the L. A. Armstrong Apple Warehouse in background, pre-1914.

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  Eastern approach tracks to the Avon River Bridge from downtown Windsor, in 1918, sharpest curve on the DAR.

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  Train No. 95 leaving Windsor for Yarmouth in August 1949.

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  Topographic map from Falmouth to Ellershouse circa 1956.

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  No. 2501 leads a mixed train from Truro at Windsor, 1956-1958.

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  Mainline through Windsor back streets. Doran's Victoria hotel (rear) on left. Bus Station and Taxi Depot on right. Tracks cross Water St in distance (1958)

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  D.A.R. tracks crossing main street of Windsor on July 31, 1958.

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  SW1200 with Caboose passing through downtown Windsor 1966.

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  Windsor Station awaiting demolition as the Highway 101 overpass is being built, July 1970.

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  Windsor Station being demolished as tracks are ripped up for the Windsor Causeway realignment, July 1970.

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  The Avon River Causeway, the new Windsor Station and new DAR main line all under construction at Windsor September 1970.

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  RDC 9058 or 9059 passing through Windsor, with the new Windsor Station and Avon River Causeway nearing completion October 11, 1970.

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  The new Windsor Station with the old freight shed in the centre and the L. A. Armstrong Apple Warehouse, Aug. 7, 1973.

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  Train No. 1 at Windsor Station with the L. A. Armstrong Apple Warehouse to the left and the Avon River Causeway to the right, Aug 17, 1977.

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  Windsor, with CPR Locomotive 8132 and freight train on the Avon River Causeway and a Southern Railroad boxcar parked at the L. A. Armstrong Apple Warehouse, Oct. 17, 1979.

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  Windsor Station in July 1993.

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  Windsor Station looking west down the Avon River Causeway on August 30, 2011.

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  The L. A. Armstrong Apple Warehouse in Windsor is demolished, November 19, 2019. Windsor's remaining apple warehouse, Dufferin Place (the old B. Sexton Apple Warehouse), seen in background.

References & Footnotes

• Alexander MacNab, Windsor and Annapolis Railway, Report of Alexander MacNab Nov 1, 1873
• 1969 Memorandum of General Information

External Links

• Nova Scotia Archives, zoomable aerial view of Windsor and surrounding area

• Richard Manicom's photo story of Kentville freight Train No. 24 arriving in Windsor switching in the Windsor Railyard to make up the Truro mixed in 1974: Dominion Atlantic Railway Mixed Train Assembly Seen From the Cab Windsor Nova Scotia 1974