Hantsport

Hantsport, Nova Scotia

Mile 38.51 from Windsor Junction on the Halifax Subdivision (Mile 54.32 from Halifax)

• Next Station East: Shaw's Bog
• Next Station West: Avonport

Facilities & Features

• Hantsport Station
• Hantsport Railyard
• Halfway River Bridge

Commerce & Industry

• Fundy Gypsum
• Sandford apple warehouse

Gallery

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  Topographic map from Avonport to Shaws Bog circa 1956.

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  Hantsport with crowds gathered for a VIP train showing the Hantsport Station, water tower and the Hantsport Fruit Basket Company, possibly during the 1901 royal visit.

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  Hantsport viewed looking east from boxcar on the Hantsport team track with the Hantsport Station and the Sandford apple warehouse, circa 1895.

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  Interior of the Sandford apple warehouse in Hantsport, circa 1900.

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  No. 405801 as it first appeared on the DAR as Quebec Central bunk car No. 40792 used by surveyors at Hantsport on August 1, 1958.

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  Canadian Atlantic Railway hi-rail truck and No. 1275.

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  No's. 1275, 1273, 434676 and 1274.

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  Locomotive No. 1275

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  Hantsport, looking railway west.

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  No. 8138 at Hantsport in 1993.

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  No. 1274 at Hantsport in 1993.

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  Hantsport Yard close up on August 30, 2011.

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  Box cars in Hantsport 18th December 2012

References & Footnotes

• Alexander MacNab, Windsor and Annapolis Railway, Report of Alexander MacNab Nov 1, 1873
• 1969 Memorandum of General Information