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Image:Digby WCR Station a.jpg|Taken from the top of the enginehouse and looking south to the [[Digby Station|WCR station]] in background, with the [[Digby Station Restaurant]] in foreground and box car [[DAR001281|No. 1281]]. | Image:Digby WCR Station a.jpg|Taken from the top of the enginehouse and looking south to the [[Digby Station|WCR station]] in background, with the [[Digby Station Restaurant]] in foreground and box car [[DAR001281|No. 1281]]. | ||
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Revision as of 21:19, 15 December 2021
The Digby Station restaurant occupied a building on the Digby Station platform, between the station and the Digby Enginehouse.[1] It was operated for many years by a Mrs. Vye who was famous for her cooking and pastries, inspiring a line of local verse:
Lunches tempting served by the Misses Vye
And featured oft by luscious custard pie[2]
In December 1938, it was announced that the Digby station restaurant would close as train passenger were ow being served by Dining Cars and other onboard refreshments.[3]
Gallery
Postcard looking north with the WCR station in foreground, the Digby Station Restaurant and the Digby Enginehouse in background, circa 1895.
Taken from the top of the enginehouse and looking south to the WCR station in background, with the Digby Station Restaurant in foreground and box car No. 1281.
References
- ↑ Ralph Beaumount, Heckman's Canadian Pacific: A Photographic Journey (2010) p. 288
- ↑ W. W. Clarke, Clarke's History of the Earliest Railways in Nova Scotia (c. 1925) p. 34
- ↑ George Bishop, "Railway Notes", The Advertiser, Dec. 29, 1938
