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Kingsport Station
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Kingsport Station c. 1890 - 1968
Mile 13.6 on the Kingsport Subdivision.
Located north of mainline directly facing the Mayflower Fruit Company warehouse.
Wooden passenger and freight station with daytime agent operator.
Telephone call: two long rings(1)
Station Agents:
- Jack G. Glover c.1930 - c.1950 (2)
Built c. 1890. Destroyed by large fire in 1968 which also destroyed the Kingsport Fruit Company warehouse (3)
References
(1) Dominion Atlantic Railway Employee Timetable September 25, 1949, Library and Archives Canada, pmp -HE.2804 DC
(2) Kentville Advertiser, April 29, 1937, Harold Jenkins 1945 photograph in Leon Barron Collection.
External Links
(3) Cora Atkinson, A History of Kingsport, Nova Scotia], p. 26
