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*[[Windsor Junction Freight Shed]] | *[[Windsor Junction Freight Shed]] | ||
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File:Uniacke_11_D13.jpg|Topographic map from Stillwater to Windsor Junction circa 1956. | File:Uniacke_11_D13.jpg|Topographic map from Stillwater to Windsor Junction circa 1956. | ||
Image:Windsor Jct May 1993-6.jpg|The start of the east and west legs of the wye as headed to Halifax. | Image:Windsor Jct May 1993-6.jpg|The start of the east and west legs of the wye as headed to Halifax. | ||
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+ | *[[1969-MemoOfGenInfo|1969 Memorandum of General Information]] | ||
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*[http://www.trainweb.org/canadianrailways/PrototypeData/Timetables/CNRAPR28_1974page16.htm "Canadian National Railway Employee Timetable Bedford Subdivision April 28, 1974", p. 16, ''Railways of Canada Archives''] | *[http://www.trainweb.org/canadianrailways/PrototypeData/Timetables/CNRAPR28_1974page16.htm "Canadian National Railway Employee Timetable Bedford Subdivision April 28, 1974", p. 16, ''Railways of Canada Archives''] | ||
*[http://www.images.technomuses.ca/searchpf.php?id=84032&lang=en Oblique aerial photo of the Windsor Junction Wye - Canada Science and Technology Museum Image STR04095a.] | *[http://www.images.technomuses.ca/searchpf.php?id=84032&lang=en Oblique aerial photo of the Windsor Junction Wye - Canada Science and Technology Museum Image STR04095a.] | ||
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[[Category:Subdivision Halifax|106]] | [[Category:Subdivision Halifax|106]] |
Revision as of 21:21, 11 December 2013
Windsor Junction, Nova Scotia
Mile 0 on the Halifax Subdivision (Mile 15.7 on Canadian National's Bedford Subdivision)
- Next Station East: Bedford
- Next Station West: Beaver Bank
The Dominion Atlantic branched from Canadian National's Bedford Subdivision at Windsor Junction where a wye and interchange tracks connected the DAR's Halifax Subdivision to the Canadian National. DAR trains continued on to Halifax with running rights on 15 miles of CN's Bedford Subdivision into Halifax.
Facilities & Features
Commerce & Industry
Description & History
Operations & Orders
Gallery
Windsor Junction right at the switch where the DAR branches off from the CN mainline on September 13, 2011.
Windsor Junction looking west on September 13, 2011. The pile of boards in the centre right appears to be all that is left of the Windsor Junction Freight Shed.
Windsor Junction proceeding west, just past the station on September 13, 2011.
Windsor Junction wye looking eastbound.