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Kentville Car Shop
Kentville Car Shop
First Car Shop 1869 to 1937
Built by the Windsor and Annapolis Railway in 1869, the car shop in Kentville not only repaired cars but also built many W&A and DAR freight and passengers cars such as DAR passsenger cars No.1, No. 4, No. 5, No. 6 and baggage cars Nos. 52, 53, 55 and 56. It burned on October 20, 1937.
Gallery
The first recorded photo of the Kentville Station taken in 1869, also showing the Freight Shed and Car Shop.
Kentville Station and Yard with car shop July 27, 1871
Kentville Station with car shop in the background, circa 1904-1914
Second Car Shop 1937 to 199x
Built by DAR Bridge & Building Department after original W & A wooden car shop burned in 1937. Construction began November 1937, finished December 1937: (1)
- 46 feet by 217 feet
- Concrete base, brick tile walls
- Two through tracks
- Attached office
The Car Shop was converted to Car and Locomotive Shop after Roundhouse closed in the 1960s.
The Shop closed in the late 1980s when locomotive servicing for the three remaining DAR locomotives was moved the Hantsport.(2)
Demolished 200x
Gallery
Car Shops seen from the Coaling Tower, circa late 1940s, early 1950s.
Locomotive No. 555 in front of the Kentville Car Shop, circa 1940.
No. 2665 in the Kentville Railyard in August 1951 after arriving with Train No. 95. Also visible is business car Nova Scotia parked by the repair shop with the car shop to left.
Engine No. 2516 loco for Train No. 95 heading to engine service facilities in front of the Kentville Car Shop in August 1951. Kentville Boiler Plant exhaust stack behind that.
No. 470 in front of Kentville Car Shop at Kentville in August 1951.
Kentville Railyard looking east showing the boiler plant, car shop, freight shed, coaling and sanding towers and machine shop, 1958 July 31.
No. 8138, '58 Pontiac inspection car, Kentville Coaling Tower, Kentville Roundhouse, the Kentville Water Tower and the Kentville Car Shop all visable from this view of the Kentville Railyard, Kentville in August 1959.
1958 Pontiac inspection car at the SE corner of the Kentville Car Shop in Kentville.
Turntable, power plant, car shop and No. 8131, from door of roundhouse in August 1959.
No. 8131 and No. 8132 with loco shops and turntable on right, and car shops and power plant on left in August 1959.
View of the Kentville Railyard looking east from the roundhouse in 1961.
Kentville Railyard looking west with the coal tower on the left and the roundhouse in the very back and car shop to the right, 1967.
Kentville engine servicing facilities on July 20, 1967. Visible are the Kentville Coaling Tower, Engine No. 8136, the Kentville Roundhouse and the corner of the Kentville Car Shop.
No. 8136 at the Kentville Car Shop circa 1972.
No. 8136 parked on one of the Kentville Car Shop tracks.
No. 8132 parked on one of the Kentville Car Shop tracks.
No. 8138 at Kentville Car Shop in Kentville in August 1973.
No. 8132 at Kentville August 1974 beside the Kentville Car Shop with the Kentville Repair Shop behind.
Inside the Car shop looking out - 2nd May 1976
No.8137 and No. 8139 & unknown sister inside Kentville Car Shop in June 1976.
CP No. 8131 inside Kentville Car Shop in May 1977.
Diesel shop in Kentville, formerly the car shop on August 17, 1977.
No. 8136 and two sisters at the Kentville Car Shop on July 7, 1979.
DAR434061 and DAR434038 along with a VIA RDC are parked by the Kentville Car Shop on May 22, 1989.
The Kentville Car Shop as viewed on August 29, 1993.
The Kentville Car Shop as viewed on August 29, 1993.
No. 8136 pokes its hood out of the Kentville Car Shop.
No. 1273 is parked outside the Kentville Car Shop in August 1992.
No. 1273 inside the Kentville Car Shop in August 1992.
No. 1273 inside the Kentville Car Shop in August 1992.
No. 1273 along with van No. 434676 inside the Kentville Car Shop in August 1992.
References and Footnotes
(1) Kentville Advertiser, Nov. 10, 1937, Jan. 27, 1938
(2) David Othen, Dominion Atlantic Railway The Final 25 Years, page 79.
