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Early locomotives may have been supplied by an internal water tank in the original Windsor and Annapolis [[Kentville Roundhouse]], but the first documented water tower was located south of the mainline and just east of the W&AR engine house and shops, close to Main Street. It had a square wooden base.<ref>[[:Category:Fire_Insurance_Maps|Kentville Fire Insurance Map, August 1921, Comeau Family Collection]]</ref>
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Early locomotives may have been supplied by an internal water tank in the original Windsor and Annapolis [[Kentville Roundhouse]], but the first documented water tower was located south of the mainline and just east of the W&AR engine house and shops, close to Main Street. It had a square wooden base<ref>[[:Category:Fire_Insurance_Maps|Kentville Fire Insurance Map, August 1921, Comeau Family Collection]]</ref> and an ornamental finial at the top.
  
 
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Revision as of 10:05, 20 February 2023

Kentville Water Tower

A series of water towers associated with the Kentville Terminal Shops supplied steam locomotives.

The First Water Tower

Early locomotives may have been supplied by an internal water tank in the original Windsor and Annapolis Kentville Roundhouse, but the first documented water tower was located south of the mainline and just east of the W&AR engine house and shops, close to Main Street. It had a square wooden base[1] and an ornamental finial at the top.

The Second Water Tower

A standard CPR 10,000 gallon[2] semi-enclosed octagonal wooden water tower, it was at first located by the turntable and had two discharge pies, one by the roundhouse lead and the other on the Kingsport branch line.


The Third Water Tower

A new water tower, also a standard CPR semi-enclosed octagonal design was built closer to the river about 1943 and replaced at the turntable lead by a water stand pipe. It served until the end of steam in the early 1960s.

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