Kingsport

Kingsport, Nova Scotia

• Subdivision Kingsport, Mile 13.6

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Previous Station: Pereau

Kingsport was the eastern terminus of the CVR branchline. It boasted a large wye with a single stall enginehouse where the branch line locomotive received light servicing and stayed overnight. Because of the short distance to Kentville, there were no water or coaling facilities. Kingsport was home to many of the regular train crews on the branchline and also a summer home to some DAR employees who owned cottages there. The railway terminated on the Kingsport Wharf, a long tidal pier where trains connected with Minas Basin steamers such as the SS Prince Albert and later the MV Kipawo.

Facilities

Kingsport Station, north side of main line

Siding for two apple warehouses opposite station, south side of main line:

• Mayflower Fruit Company warehouse
• Kingsport Fruit Company warehouse

• Section House at east switch of wye

Wye

Kingsport Enginehouse

Spur line to Kingsport Wharf

• Siding at wharf, abandoned by 1911

Waiting room/freight shed and lighthouse at end of wharf

Features

Kingsport Wharf

Gallery

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  Kingsport circa 1890s with wharf and shipyard.

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  Kingsport Wharf, high and low tide views, with flatcars and gondola on wharf siding, circa 1900.

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  Automobile claim ticket for Parrsboro to Kingsport voyage aboard MV Kipawo August 15, 1938.

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  The Kingsport Wharf, the final terminus of the CVR, showing the second DAR freight shed on the wharf in the last days of the subdivision, circa 1960.

References and Footnotes

• "Time Table No. 77 For Employees June 21, 1931", Dominion Atlantic Railway, p. 3

• Dominion Atlantic Railway Employee Time Table September 25, 1949, Library and Archives Canada, pmp -HE.2804 DC

External Links

• Cora Atkinson, A History of Kingsport, Nova Scotia]
• Kinsport History along with community information.
• Kingsport at Wikipedia
• Rare Photo of Kingsport Enginehouse in May 1958, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Photo Number: STR20505a