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Port Williams Station
Port Williams Station
Wood Station 1869
The Port Williams Railway Station, actually located in Greenwich, N.S., was constructed between 1869 & 1873, and was located on the South Side of the line (2). It is not known at this time if Port Williams was one of the original 10 contracted stations built in 1869 or if it was built sometime before 1873 as one of 23 stations present in 1873 for the newly minted Windsor & Annapolis Railway. It was one of the simple gable roofed W&AR first generation stations and was 40' x 22' with a 200' x 12' station platform, being the same as Hantsport, Grand Pre, Waterville, Berwick, Aylesford, Middleton, Lawrencetown and Paradise.[1]
Gallery
Wood Station 1893-1973
According to The Acadian (local paper from Wolfville) The Windsor & Annapolis was seeking tenders for construction of a new station and freight shed, as they required larger buildings. The station was built in 1893 along the North Side of the line near Port Williams Women's Institute.[2] The station was sold by the railway in 1973 to Lawrence Coldwell, who had the building demolished.[3]
Gallery
Port Williams showing the station, the Port Williams Fruit Company and other warehouses as well as the evaporator ruins, August 1931.
Port Williams Station circa 1943.
Port Williams Station, November 1958.
Port Williams Station, 1960.
Port Williams Station, summer or early fall 1973, just before the station was demolished.
Port Williams Station, looking west to the Port Williams Fruit Company warehouse, summer/early fall 1973 just before the station's demolition.
References
- ↑ Alexander MacNab, Windsor and Annapolis Railway, Report of Alexander MacNab Nov 1, 1873 p14, p22
- ↑ Tom Sheppard, Historic Wolfville: Grand and Pre a page 164.
- ↑ Port Willams Women's Institute, The Port Remembers: A History of Port Willims and Its Surrouding Country Homes, (1976), page 199
