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Revision as of 17:28, 23 October 2020
Kingsport Station c. 1890 - 1968
Mile 13.6 on the Kingsport Subdivision.
Located north of mainline directly facing the Mayflower Fruit Company warehouse.
Wooden passenger and freight station with daytime agent operator.
Telephone call: two long rings(1)
Station Agents:
- Jack G. Glover c.1930 - c.1950 (2)
Built c. 1890. Destroyed by large fire in 1968 which also destroyed the Mayflower Fruit Company warehouse.(3)
Gallery
Locomotive No. 13 "Gabriel" at the Kingsport Station, circa 1895-1911.
DAR locomotive No. 470 with Train No. 11 at the Kingsport Station, circa 1942.
Locomotive No. 470 with crew at Kingsport, June 1943.
Crew of the Kingsport train at the Kingsport Station, summer 1946.
Locomotive 470 at the Kingsport Station with the Mayflower Fruit Company warehouse and the Kingsport Section House, 1946.
Kingsport Station, 1959.
Postcard of the Kingsport Station, circa 1960.
References and Footnotes
(1) Dominion Atlantic Railway Employee Time Table September 25, 1949, Library and Archives Canada, pmp -HE.2804 DC
(2) Kentville Advertiser, April 29, 1937, Harold Jenkins 1945 photograph in Leon Barron Collection.
Reference Tag
External Links
(3) Cora Atkinson, A History of Kingsport, Nova Scotia], p. 26
