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Mile 31.51 from [[Windsor Junction]] on the [[:Category:Subdivision Halifax|Halifax Subdivision]]  (Mile 47.32 from [[Halifax]])
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[[File:Avon River Bridges.jpg|thumb|500px|[[Windsor]] and the [[Avon River Bridge]] with [[DAR1015|No. 1015]], date unknown, late 1940s, 1950s.]]
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Mile 31.60 from [[Windsor Junction]] on the [[:Category:Subdivision Halifax|Halifax Subdivision]]  (Mile 47.32 from [[Halifax]])
  
 
Mile 0 [[:Category:Subdivision Truro|Subdivision Truro]]  
 
Mile 0 [[:Category:Subdivision Truro|Subdivision Truro]]  
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Elevation: 29 feet above sea level<ref>Dominion Atlantic Railway, ''[[1969-MemoOfGenInfo|1969 Memorandum of General Information]]'', page 3</ref>
  
 
*Next Station West: [[Falmouth]]
 
*Next Station West: [[Falmouth]]
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*Next Station East: [[Dimock's]]
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*Next Station East (to Truro): [[Dimock's]]
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*Next Station South: [[Pembertons]]
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*Next Station East (to Halifax): [[Pembertons]]
  
 
==Facilities & Features==
 
==Facilities & Features==
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*[[Windsor Railyard]]
 
 
*[[Windsor Station]]
 
*[[Windsor Station]]
 
*[[Windsor Freight Shed]]
 
*[[Windsor Freight Shed]]
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*[[Windsor Railyard]]
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*[[Windsor Enginehouse]]
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*[[Windsor Track Scale]]
 
*[[Windsor Water Tower]]
 
*[[Windsor Water Tower]]
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*[[Windsor Diesel Fueling]]
 
*[[Windsor Wharves]]
 
*[[Windsor Wharves]]
 
*[[Avon River Bridge]]
 
*[[Avon River Bridge]]
  
 
==Description & History==
 
==Description & History==
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Windsor was an important transportation junction for Nova Scotia's Mi'kmaq and the site of a significant Acadian settlement known as Piziquid. After the founding of Halifax and the Deportation of the Acadians, the name was changed to Windsor and the town remained an important transportation hub for the Minas Basin. The [[:Category:Subdivision Halifax|Nova Scotia Railway]] line from from Halifax arrived in 1857, making the town an important steamship connection for Halifax to Bay of Fundy shipping routes. The railway continued westward as the [[Windsor & Annapolis Railway]] in 1870, eventually connecting to Yarmouth as the Dominion Atlantic Railway in 1894. In 1901 the Midland Railway was built across Hants County, connecting Windsor with Truro. The central location of Windsor on the railway fostered the growth of numerous factories such as textile mills, fertilizer plants and furniture factories while wharves handled ocean traffic for gypsum and coal. A busy station and rail yard served these facilities along with some terminal services for DAR locomotives. Although railway industries gradually declined after the Second World war, Windsor remained a busy rail location until the end of the DAR. Passenger service finally ended in January 1990. The DAR's successor, the [[Windsor and Hantsport Railway]] used Windsor as its headquarters in 1995, until rail traffic ceased in 2011. Today Windsor's rail yard, station, shops and rolling stock remain in place, but mothballed and grown-over.
  
 
==Commerce & Industry==
 
==Commerce & Industry==
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*[[:Category:Canadian_Gypsum|Canadian Gypsum/Fundy Gypsum Quarries]]
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* Windsor Wear textile factory
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* [[Colonial Fertilizer|Colonial Fertilizer Company]]
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* [[L. A. Armstrong Apple Warehouse]]
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* B. Sexton Apple Warehouse
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* Windsor Supply Company Lumberyard
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* Windsor Foundry
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* Windsor Plaster Company
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* Eastern Lime Company
  
 
==Gallery==
 
==Gallery==
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<Gallery perrow=5>
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<Gallery>
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File:NSA Windsor birdsyeye.jpg|[[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.
 
File:NSA Windsor birdsyeye.jpg|[[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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File:Quarries.jpg|[[:Category:Gypsum_Trains|gypsum quarry]] spurs in the [[Windsor]], [[Dimock's]] and [[Newport]] areas, from geological map, 1909.
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File:Kalkman58.jpg|[[DAR0017|Western Counties Railway Locomotive No. 5, later DAR No. 17]] at [[Windsor]], probably during the [[Western Counties Railway]] takeover of [[The Windsor Branch]] 1877-1879.
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File:19.6.07.51.jpg|The [[Windsor Enginehouse]] and the circular structure covering the turntable, with the Windsor Cotton Mill in background, circa 1884.
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File:DAR-Engine10andTrainB-Windsor-HBJeffersonPhoto.JPG|[[DAR0012|Windsor & Annapolis No. 10, later DAR No. 12]] & train at the [[Windsor Station]], circa 1891.
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File:Windsor Street Running.jpg|A passenger train running in the street at [[Windsor]], sometime prior to July, 1905.
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File:Windsor Street Running 02.jpg|A freight train running in the street at [[Windsor]].
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File:Quarries.jpg|[[:Category:Gypsum_Trains|Gypsum quarry]] spurs in the [[Windsor]], [[Dimock's]] and [[Newport]] areas, from geological map, 1909.
  
 
File:DAR - Engine 380 On TurntableD-Windsor-Harold Jenkins Photo-1912.JPG|[[DAR0380|Locomotive No. 380]] with crew on the turntable at the [[Windsor Enginehouse]], 1912.
 
File:DAR - Engine 380 On TurntableD-Windsor-Harold Jenkins Photo-1912.JPG|[[DAR0380|Locomotive No. 380]] with crew on the turntable at the [[Windsor Enginehouse]], 1912.
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File:19.7.08.1a.jpg|[[Windsor Wharves]] with DAR [[:Category:Gypsum Trains|gypsum cars]] and box cars in foreground and the [[L. A. Armstrong Apple Warehouse]] in background, pre-1914.
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File:HA-31.60 Windsor.jpg|1918 Track Chart of Windsor
  
 
Image:Avon River bridge curve.jpg|Eastern approach tracks to the [[Avon River Bridge]] from downtown [[Windsor]], in 1918, sharpest curve on the DAR.
 
Image:Avon River bridge curve.jpg|Eastern approach tracks to the [[Avon River Bridge]] from downtown [[Windsor]], in 1918, sharpest curve on the DAR.
  
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File:Engine999_-_Middleton.jpg |[[DAR0999|Engine 999]] in [[Windsor]], near the freight shed with boxcar at apple warehouse in background, unknown date.
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File:Kalkman56.jpg|[[Windsor Railyard]] with the [[Windsor Station|Station]] and [[Windsor Freight Shed|Freight Shed]] to left, the [[Windsor Wharves|wharves]] in background and DAR rolling stock including [[DAR435786|Van 435786]], [[DAR000425|flatcar 425]], and [[DAR069958|box car 69958]], half of panoramic photo by [[:Category:H. H. Reid_Photo|H.H. Reid]], early 1920s.
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File:Kalkman45.jpg|[[Windsor Railyard]] with Windsor Textiles in the background and full freight yard including [[DAR001410|DAR box car No. 1410]], half of a panoramic view by [[:Category:H. H. Reid_Photo|H.H. Reid]], early 1920s.
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File:201908782DetailB.JPG|The second [[Windsor Enginehouse]] with part of the [[Colonial Fertilizer]] in the background, circa 1920s.
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File:Windsor Train on Water Street, Heading for Station - 1927 - 1.jpg|A passenger train approaches [[Windsor Station]] on the street trackage on Water Street, July 1, 1927. (60 years of Confederation.)
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File:SGM-B0081.jpg|[[DAR000859|No. 859]] and [[DAR000872|No. 872]] at [[Windsor]] in May 1932.
  
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File:Kalkman094.jpg|[[Windsor]] tracks with [[Colonial Fertilizer]] plant in background and a MOW cars [[DAR000859|No. 859]] and [[DAR000872|No. 872]] on siding of the [[:Category:Subdivision Truro|Midland/Truro Subdivision]], circa mid 1930s.
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File:Kalkman093.jpg|DAR [[:Category:Inspection Cars|Inspection Car]] at [[Windsor]], a 1938 Maclaughlin Buick with [[DAR1092|DAR Engine No. 1092]] in background, circa early 1940s.
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==1941 Fire Insurance Map==
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<gallery>
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File:Windsor 1941 Sheet1.jpg|Windsor [[:Category:Fire Insurance Maps|Fire Insurance Map]], Sheet 1, overall plan with DAR mainline through [[Windsor]] and the [[Windsor Enginehouse|Windsor Roundhouse"]], July 1941.
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File:Windsor 1941 Sheet11.jpg|Windsor [[:Category:Fire Insurance Maps|Fire Insurance Map]], Sheet 11, showing the [[Windsor Station|Windsor Baggage Station]], [[Windsor Railyard]], [[Windsor Wharves]], [[Colonial Fertilizer]] and the Windsor Wear Textile Factory, July 1941.
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File:Windsor 1941 Sheet2.jpg|Windsor [[:Category:Fire Insurance Maps|Fire Insurance Map]], Sheet 2, with the [[Windsor Station]], [[Windsor Freight Shed|Freight Shed]], [[Windsor Railyard]], the [[L. A. Armstrong Apple Warehouse|L.A. Armstrong]] and the B. Sexton Warehouses and the [[Windsor Wharves]], July 1941.
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File:Windsor 1941 Sheet3.jpg|Windsor [[:Category:Fire Insurance Maps|Fire Insurance Map]], Sheet 3, showing downtown tracks and parts of the [[Windsor Wharves]] on the Avon River, July 1941.
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File:Windsor 1941 Sheet4.jpg|Windsor [[:Category:Fire Insurance Maps|Fire Insurance Map]], Sheet 4, showing spurs for the Windsor Supply Co. Lumberyard and the [[Eastern Lime Company]], and road bridge over Avon River, July 1941.
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File:Windsor 1941 Sheet8.jpg|Windsor [[:Category:Fire Insurance Maps|Fire Insurance Map]], Sheet 8, showing the spur for the Windsor Plaster Company and the Windsor Foundry, July 1941.
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File:Windsor 1941 Sheet9.jpg|[[:Category:Fire Insurance Maps|Fire Insurance Map]] for [[Windsor]], Sheet 9, showing the DAR mainline at Wentworth Road and the [[Eastern Lime Company]], July 1941.
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File:Windsor 1941 Sheet10.jpg|Windsor [[:Category:Fire Insurance Maps|Fire Insurance Map]], Sheet 10, showing the Currys Corner Fruit Warehouse and the [[Pembertons]] station, July 1941.
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</gallery>
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==Gallery==
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<gallery>
 
Image:Train No. 95 leaving Windsor for Yarmouth 8-49.jpg|[[Train No. 95]] leaving [[Windsor]] for [[Yarmouth]] in August 1949.
 
Image:Train No. 95 leaving Windsor for Yarmouth 8-49.jpg|[[Train No. 95]] leaving [[Windsor]] for [[Yarmouth]] in August 1949.
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File:Ness1092 medres.jpg|DAR locomotive [[DAR1092|No. 1092]] in a derailment in [[Windsor]] at the spur for the Windsor Plaster Company, circa 1950.
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File:DAR_plan_Windsor_1955-01 enhanced.jpg|Survey plan of [[:Category:Subdivision_Halifax|Halifax Subdivision]] tracks, structures, alignment and right-of-way through [[Windsor]], January 1955.
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File:Windsor_Rail_Lines_pre-1956.jpg|[https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/4/edit?mid=1eVoZNTBpQKcoHh99ZxTpmpNNlOEDCLo&usp=sharing Interactive map] of rail lines in the Town of [[Windsor]] prior to 1956
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File:WindsorComing.jpg|[[DAR1038|DAR locomotive No. 1038]] crossing the [[Avon River Bridge]] with the Kentville to Windsor freight train No. 94 arriving at [[Windsor]], July 1956.
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File:WindsorGoing.jpg|[[DAR1038|DAR locomotive No. 1038]] and caboose No. 435073 with the Kentville to Windsor freight train No. 94 arriving at [[Windsor]], July 1956.
  
 
File:Windsor_21_A16_East.jpg|Topographic map from Falmouth to Ellershouse circa 1956.
 
File:Windsor_21_A16_East.jpg|Topographic map from Falmouth to Ellershouse circa 1956.
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File:Gerrish Street Level Crossing 1 ca 1957.jpg|Manned Level Crossing at Gerrish Street in [[Windsor]] ca, 1957.
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File:Gerrish Street Level Crossing 2 ca 1957.jpg|Manned Level Crossing at Gerrish Street in [[Windsor]] ca, 1957.
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File:2501 mixed and RDC.jpg|[[DAR2501|No. 2501]] leads a mixed train from [[Truro]] at [[Windsor]], 1956-1958.
  
 
File:Windsor_1958_back_street.jpg | 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)
 
File:Windsor_1958_back_street.jpg | 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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File:DAR - Windsor Station - Tracks Ripped Up - HaroldJenkinsPhoto-July1970.JPG|[[Windsor Station]] being demolished as tracks are ripped up for the [[Windsor]] Causeway realignment, July 1970.
 
File:DAR - Windsor Station - Tracks Ripped Up - HaroldJenkinsPhoto-July1970.JPG|[[Windsor Station]] being demolished as tracks are ripped up for the [[Windsor]] Causeway realignment, July 1970.
  
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File:DAR - DAR Line Being Built over Windsor Casuseway - Harold Jenkins Photo - 197009.jpg|The [[Avon River Causeway]], the new [[Windsor Station]] and new DAR main line all under construction at [[Windsor]] September 1970.
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File:WHHS 92.853.3.jpg|[[Windsor Station]] being demolished through a controlled burn by the Windsor Fire Dept, new Highway 101 overpass in background, Sept. 1970.
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File:DAR - DAR Line Being Built over Windsor Casuseway - Harold Jenkins Photo - 197009.jpg|The [[Avon River Causeway]], the new [[Windsor Station]] and new DAR main line all under construction at [[Windsor]] September 1970.
  
 
File:DAR - RDC - Windsor - HWY 101 being built - Harold Jenkins - 19701011.jpg|[[:Category:RDC|RDC]] 9058 or 9059 passing through [[Windsor]], with the new [[Windsor Station]] and [[Avon River Causeway]] nearing completion October 11, 1970.
 
File:DAR - RDC - Windsor - HWY 101 being built - Harold Jenkins - 19701011.jpg|[[:Category:RDC|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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Image:Windsor Station 1973 a.jpg|The new [[Windsor Station]] with the old [[Windsor Freight Shed|freight shed]] in the centre and the [[L. A. Armstrong Apple Warehouse]], Aug. 7, 1973.
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Image:Windsor Station 1977 and Train No. 1.jpg|[[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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File:CP8132 wb Windsor causeway 1230 17OC79.jpg|[[Windsor]], with [[CPR8132|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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Image:DAR windsor station july 1993.jpg|[[Windsor Station]] in July 1993.
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File:Windsor 1 (1280x853).jpg|[[Windsor Station]] looking west down the [[Avon River Causeway]] on August 30, 2011.
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File:Windsor Warehouses JD Wilson.jpg|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.
  
 
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==External Links==
 
==External Links==
 
*[http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/NSIS/archives.asp?ID=282 Nova Scotia Archives, zoomable aerial view of Windsor and surrounding area]
 
*[http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/NSIS/archives.asp?ID=282 Nova Scotia Archives, zoomable aerial view of Windsor and surrounding area]
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*[https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/4/viewer?fbclid=IwY2xjawGoWGZleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHc1lIiAgW1p_FriaAC6lnLqKnn3myMf4WS6YY48GTE_nyDN_tk2x2Qmnfg_aem_M8tfOe02mbYRxM4yY9CFpQ&mid=1eVoZNTBpQKcoHh99ZxTpmpNNlOEDCLo&ll=44.99360885278197%2C-64.12909701161252&z=16 Chris Robert's annoted map of rail lines in the Windsor township.]
  
 
*Richard Manicom's photo story of Kentville freight [[Train No. 24]] arriving in Windsor switching in the [[Windsor Railyard]] to make up [[Train No. 21|the Truro mixed]] in 1974: [https://savepsw.zenfolio.com/p370429802 Dominion Atlantic Railway Mixed Train Assembly Seen From the Cab Windsor Nova Scotia 1974]
 
*Richard Manicom's photo story of Kentville freight [[Train No. 24]] arriving in Windsor switching in the [[Windsor Railyard]] to make up [[Train No. 21|the Truro mixed]] in 1974: [https://savepsw.zenfolio.com/p370429802 Dominion Atlantic Railway Mixed Train Assembly Seen From the Cab Windsor Nova Scotia 1974]
  
 
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Latest revision as of 13:19, 23 April 2025

Windsor and the Avon River Bridge with No. 1015, date unknown, 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[1]

Facilities & Features

Description & History

Windsor was an important transportation junction for Nova Scotia's Mi'kmaq and the site of a significant Acadian settlement known as Piziquid. After the founding of Halifax and the Deportation of the Acadians, the name was changed to Windsor and the town remained an important transportation hub for the Minas Basin. The Nova Scotia Railway line from from Halifax arrived in 1857, making the town an important steamship connection for Halifax to Bay of Fundy shipping routes. The railway continued westward as the Windsor & Annapolis Railway in 1870, eventually connecting to Yarmouth as the Dominion Atlantic Railway in 1894. In 1901 the Midland Railway was built across Hants County, connecting Windsor with Truro. The central location of Windsor on the railway fostered the growth of numerous factories such as textile mills, fertilizer plants and furniture factories while wharves handled ocean traffic for gypsum and coal. A busy station and rail yard served these facilities along with some terminal services for DAR locomotives. Although railway industries gradually declined after the Second World war, Windsor remained a busy rail location until the end of the DAR. Passenger service finally ended in January 1990. The DAR's successor, the Windsor and Hantsport Railway used Windsor as its headquarters in 1995, until rail traffic ceased in 2011. Today Windsor's rail yard, station, shops and rolling stock remain in place, but mothballed and grown-over.

Commerce & Industry

Gallery

1941 Fire Insurance Map

Gallery

References & Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dominion Atlantic Railway, 1969 Memorandum of General Information, page 3

Reference Tag

External Links

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