Meteghan Station

Meteghan Station

Mile 57.2 at Meteghan on the Yarmouth Subdivison

In an email dated February 20, 2013, Phil Mason said the following:

"When we visited in May/June 1975, the DAR had just abolished the operators at several stations, Meteghan being one and Weymouth another. Because there was still RDC service, these stations had "caretakers" for awhile. This would be a person who would come in an hour or so before train time, and open up the waiting room.

Meteghan has a green and white flag. This is a signal for the passenger train to stop to pick up passengers at a "flag" stop. The caretaker would display the signal. In many places, the prospective passengers would do this.

Sadly, the world changed, and caretaker operated stations would get vandalised even in peaceful rural areas. Within a couple of years, the DAR boarded up or demolished the flag stop stations."

The VIA Rail station for Meteghan that was sold to Robert Long Real Estate had been resold, and later owned by a B. German. (1)

The older CP flag stop station was moved nearby. It was left to deteriorate and was demolished by vandals in 2014.

Gallery

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  Meteghan Station, late 19th century or early 20th.

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  Meteghan Station, June 20, 1945.

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  Meteghan Station, June 9, 1963.

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  Meteghan Station.

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  Meteghan Station. May 19, 1975.

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  VIA Rail shelter. April 1986.

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  VIA Rail shelter and station. April 1986.

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  VIA Rail shelter. April 1986.

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  VIA Rail shelter and station. April 1986.

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  Crowd at Meteghan Station greeting VIA No. 6147 on the last eastbound, Yarmouth to Halifax passenger run, Train No. 154, January 14, 1990.

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  VIA No. 6119 about to leave Meteghan Station for the final time on the last eastbound passenger run, January 14, 1990.

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  The DAR's dayliner leaves Meteghan Station for the final time on the last eastbound, Yarmouth to Halifax passenger run, January 14, 1990.

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  Leaving Meteghan Station for the final time on the last eastbound, Yarmouth to Halifax run, with RDC No. 6147 vanishing into the east, January 14, 1990.

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  Meteghan Station, 1990

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  Meteghan Station, 1990

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  Meteghan Station, 1990

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  Meteghan Station, sometime after abandonment, probably 1990 or 1991.

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  Meteghan Station and siding, sometime after abandonment, probably 1990 or 1991.

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  Relocated VIA Rail shelter for sale, 1993.

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  Looking railway east at Meteghan Station, 2006. The paved platform remains from VIA days.

References and Footnotes

• 1905 and 1945 views of the Meteghan station on Facebook group "Old photos of Clare" https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154504912009518&set=gm.10154108044963393&type=3&theater
• (1) https://www.facebook.com/groups/fallenflags/permalink/1119346458144063/