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After the station was demolished, Canadian National installed an ATCO portable building with stairs and a wheelchair ramp to serve as a station shelter.<ref>[http://novascotiarailwayheritage.com/photos.htm "Historical Nova Scotian Railway Photographs | After the station was demolished, Canadian National installed an ATCO portable building with stairs and a wheelchair ramp to serve as a station shelter.<ref>[http://novascotiarailwayheritage.com/photos.htm "Historical Nova Scotian Railway Photographs | ||
| − | Canadian National Lines", ''Nova Scotia's Railway Heritage''}</ref> It served until the cancellation of local VIA services. | + | Canadian National Lines", ''Nova Scotia's Railway Heritage''}</ref> It served until the cancellation of local VIA services in 1990. |
==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||
Revision as of 21:25, 20 November 2018
Windsor Junction Station
Surrounded by tracks on all sides, the Windsor Junction Station was an important interchange for passengers and freight and railway control point for over a century. It was also home to generations of station staff and their families who fulfilled the railway duties of the busy junction and also tended trees and gardens amidst the cinders and coal smoke.
The Nova Scotia Railway Station 1857-1882
The Nova Scotia Railway built the first of a series of stations at Windsor Junction in 1857 when railway construction reach the junction where tracks split for Windsor and to Truro. The station grounds included a dining room, called the Junction House, in the era before dining cars when all trains stopped at the Junction for 20 minutes so passengers could eat. The station itself even contained, for a time, a well-stocked saloon, until 1864 the saloon was shut down by the new Railway Commissioner Avard Longley, a temperance advocate. The station was well-known for its herd of goast which provided goats milk for the dining room but also wandered the platform and would board passenger cars looking for leftovers.[1]
The Intercolonial Railway Station 1882-1985
The Nova Scotian Railway was taken over by the federal Intercolonial Railway after Confederation in 1867. The Intercolonial built a new station at the Junction in 1882,[2] likely on the foundations of the old Nova Scotia Railway Station. The new station followed the designs of the Intercolonial's Chief Engineer Sandford Flemming and was similar to Flemming's other stations at Oxford Junction, Tatamagouche and Pugwash, but built of wooden instead of brick, but in the same gothic revival style with pointed windows and dormers and elaborate detailing of the eaves and gables. It contained a residence for the station master as well as waiting room, operators bay facing the Intercolonial main line and a freight room. It had two connecting platforms, one on the north for the Intercolonial and one on the south for the Dominion Atlantic. A series of one story additions evolved over the years to provide extra freight and baggage space as well as expanded living quarters. The grounds of the station contained a small lawn, gardens and trees planted by station agents and eventually the station faced a large ornamental rock garden between the tracks and the pond on the southwest side, created by station agent James Stewart.[3] The station was staffed into the 1970s and the station masters son sometimes would throw the switches for the Dominion Atlatic's dayliners as they entered or lef the CN mainline.[4] However by 1979, the station was destaffed and abandoned.[5] It remained boarded up until August 1984 when it was demolished by Canadian National.[6]
The ATCO Station 1984-1990
After the station was demolished, Canadian National installed an ATCO portable building with stairs and a wheelchair ramp to serve as a station shelter.[7] It served until the cancellation of local VIA services in 1990.
Gallery
Windsor Junction Station, 1950s, early 1960s.
- Windsor Junction Station 1961 b.jpg
Windsor Junction Freight Shed and Windsor Junction Station at Windsor Junction NS in August 1961.
Windsor Junction Station at Windsor Junction showing D.A.R. tracks entering C.N.R mainline in August 1961.
CNR mainline tracks at Windsor Junction Station in August 1961.
Dayliner No. 9058 at Windsor Junction Station at Windsor Junction NS in August 1961.
No. 9057 entering CN track at Windsor Junction Station, Windsor Junction in 1968 for the 15 mile run into Halifax. Windsor Junction Freight Shed is also visible.
RDC 9059 Dayliner, at the Windsor Junction Station, circa 1970.
Windsor Junction Station, looking east along Canadian National's busy mainline where the Dominion Atlantic joined, July 1974.
Windsor Junction Station west end, July 1974.
Windsor Junction Station, looking west along Canadian National's busy mainline where it was joined the the Dominion Atlantic, July 1974.
Windsor Junction Station, looking west along Canadian National's busy mainline with the junction point with the the Dominion Atlantic, July 1974.
RDC 9057 at DAR platform, Windsor Junction Station headed to Halifax, July 1974.
RDC 9057 at Windsor Junction Station headed to Halifax, July 1974.
References and Footnotes
- ↑ J. B. King, "Windsor Junction: Historic Terrain", Halifax Chronicle Herald, October 18, 1958, p. 9
- ↑ C. Bruce Fergusson, "Spencer's Island", Place-Names and Places of Nova Scotia Nova Scotia Archives (1967), p. 740.]
- ↑ [[J.B. King, "Windsor Junction: Historic Terrain", p.9
- ↑ David Othen, Dominion Atlantic Railway The Final 25 Years, page 14.
- ↑ [http://novascotiarailwayheritage.com/photos.htm "Historical Nova Scotian Railway Photographs Canadian National Lines", Nova Scotia's Railway Heritage}
- ↑ [https://pixels.com/featured/windsor-junction-nova-scotia-revisited-phil-chadwick.html Phil Chadwick, "Windsor Junction Nova Scotia Revisited", June 2018,PX Pixels
- ↑ [http://novascotiarailwayheritage.com/photos.htm "Historical Nova Scotian Railway Photographs Canadian National Lines", Nova Scotia's Railway Heritage}
