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Falmouth
Falmouth, Nova Scotia
Mile 32.88 from Windsor Junction on the Halifax Subdivision (Mile 48.69 from Halifax)
- Next Station East: Windsor
- Next Station West: Shaw's Bog
Elevation: 31 feet
Facilities & Features
Commerce & Industry
- Falmouth Fruit Company Warehouse, north side of mainline, Mile 33.19
- Three apple warehouses, south side of mainline
- Falmouth evaporator
- Avon Valley Greenhouse Ltd.
Description & History
This small but agriculturally rich community just across the river from Windsor was initially served by a 26'x15'station with a platform and a large 100'x20' hay shed and platform on a 200' spur.[1] A standard Windsor and Annapolis Railway style station was built in 1888.[2] A brick fruit warehouse was built by E.E. Thompson in 1906 on the north side of the tracks. It was later greatly enlarged by the Falmouth Fruit Company. Three other warehouses, of wooden construction, were built on the south side of the tracks. An apple evaporator also operated at Falmouth before World War II and in the postwar period Avon Valley Greenhouse Limited grew cut flowers at Falmouth.[3] Westward from Falmouth, a steep grade to Shaw's Bog often presented challenges to gypsum trains and snow plows.
Operations & Orders
Gallery
A DAR locomotive and snow crew at the blocked mainline on the Falmouth grade during the big snow of 1905.
Falmouth Station with Windsor in background and new E.E Thompson Warehouse, 1906.
Topographic map from Falmouth to Ellershouse circa 1956.
RDC No. 9058 or No. 9059 at Falmouth Station with the Falmouth Fruit Company Warehouse, 1959.
A DAR RDC passing through the Mount Denson - Falmouth area, photographed by Harold Jenkins, 1970.
Falmouth, looking east towards Windsor with the Falmouth Fruit Company Warehouse to left, July 19, 1975.
Gypsum train westbound climbing out of Avon River Valley at Falmouth on August 17, 1977.
The Falmouth Fruit Company Warehouse and former E.E. Thompson warehouse, with the DAR mainline in Falmouth, June 19, 2011.
References & Footnotes
- ↑ Alexander MacNab, Windsor and Annapolis Railway, Report of Alexander MacNab Nov 1, 1873, page 21
- ↑ Construction date given in transcript of the Department of Railways and Canals, Engineer's Report, 1888, compiled by J. B. King, Scotia Railway Society Collection, Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management, RG28 Series S Vol. 4 File 15
- ↑ 1969 Memorandum of General Information, page 4.
