Kingsport

Kingsport, Nova Scotia

Subdivision Kingsport, Mile 13.6

Previous Station: Pereau

Kingsport was the eastern terminus of the CVR branchline. It boasted a large wye with a single stall engine house where the branchline locomotive recieved light servicing and stayed overnight. Because of the short distance to Kentville, there were no water or coaling facilities. Kingsport was home to many of the regular train crews on the branchline and also a summer home to some DAR employees who owned cottages there. The railway terminated on a massive tidal wharf where trains connected with Minas Basin steamers such as the SS Prince Albert and later the MV Kipawo.

Facilities

Siding with fruit warehouse for Mayflower Fruit Company and warehouse for Kingsport Fruit Company

Station with daytime agent operator

Wye with single stall enginehouse

Spur line to Kingsport Wharf

Waiting room/freight shed and lighthouse at end of wharf

Gallery

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  The Kingsport Wharf, the final terminus of the CVR, showing the second DAR freight shed on the wharf in the last days of the subdivision, circa 1960.

References and Footnotes

• Dominion Atlantic Railway Employee Timetable September 25, 1949, Library and Archives Canada, pmp -HE.2804 DC

External Links

• A History of Kingsport, Nova Scotia]