Windsor Enginehouse

The first enginehouse at Windsor was built by the Nova Scotia Railway in the 1850s to service and turn locomotives when they railway reached Windsor. It included a turntable enclosed by an octagonal structure. It was taken over by the Windsor & Annapolis Railway and later the Dominion Atlantic when they leased they leased the Windsor Branch. By 1912 the turntable enclosure had been removed. The engine house and turntable were located on the north edge of Fort Edward Hill. This enginehouse was demolished and replaced in 1916 but a three-stall engine house located inside the Windsor wye, built by the same DAR crew that built the Middleton Enginehouse and Kentville Roundhouse. It was probably demolished in the late 1920s when locomotive maintenance was centralized at the expanded Kentville roundhouse. A final engine house and car shop was built in Windsor inside the wye about 1995 by the Windsor and Hantsport Railway.

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  Bird's Eve View of Windsor Nova Scotia 1878 showing the Windsor Enginehouse and turntable, 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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  Locomotive No. 380 with crew on the turntable at the Windsor Enginehouse, 1912.

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  The Weekly Monitor article on construction of the Middleton Enginehouse, followed by the new Windsor Enginehouse and Kentville Roundhouse, Aug. 23, 1916.

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  The second Windsor Enginehouse with part of the Colonial Fertilizer in the background, circa 1920s.

References and Footnotes

Bird's Eve View of Windsor Nova Scotia 1878