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Image:Kingston station.jpg|[[Kingston Station]] from southeast, circa 1950.
 
Image:Kingston station.jpg|[[Kingston Station]] from southeast, circa 1950.
 
Image:Stopover - CPR No 25352.jpg|Stopover at [[Kingston Station]], August 10, 1956.
 
Image:Stopover - CPR No 25352.jpg|Stopover at [[Kingston Station]], August 10, 1956.
File:Kingston_Station_-_1958August.png | Station August 1956
 
 
Image:Kingston2.jpg|[[DAR9058|No. 9058]] on first run of the [[Evangeline]] RDC service in 1956 at [[Kingston Station]].
 
Image:Kingston2.jpg|[[DAR9058|No. 9058]] on first run of the [[Evangeline]] RDC service in 1956 at [[Kingston Station]].
 
File:DAR - Kingston Station - Harold Jenkins Photo-August1958.jpg|[[Kingston Station]], photographed by [[:Category:Harold Jenkins Photo|Harold Jenkins]] August 1958.
 
File:DAR - Kingston Station - Harold Jenkins Photo-August1958.jpg|[[Kingston Station]], photographed by [[:Category:Harold Jenkins Photo|Harold Jenkins]] August 1958.
 
Image:Kingston Station and RDC.jpg|[[Kingston Station]], August 1959.
 
Image:Kingston Station and RDC.jpg|[[Kingston Station]], August 1959.
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File:Kingston_Station_1965.png |Station 1965.
 
File:12578.jpg|[[Kingston Station]], shortly before demolition, summer 1974.
 
File:12578.jpg|[[Kingston Station]], shortly before demolition, summer 1974.
File:Kingston_Station_1965.png | Station 1965
 
 
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Revision as of 19:23, 15 November 2018

Kingston Station

Kingston's first station was a simple structure built by the Windsor and Annapolis Railway in 1869. In 1887 a new station and siding were constructed[1]. The station contained the standard Windsor & Annapolis gothic window style station, containing a waiting room and freight room separated by the agent's office and operator's bay.

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  1. Construction date given in transcript of the Department of Railways and Canals, Engineer's Report, 1887, compiled by J. B. King, Scotian Railroad Society Collection, Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management, RG28 Series S Vol. 4 File 15

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