Newport

Newport, Nova Scotia

Mile 26.11 from Windsor Junction on the Halifax Subdivision (Mile 41.92 from Halifax)

• Next Station East: Hartville
• Next Station West: Three Mile Plains

Facilities & Features

• Spur to Moshers Gypsum Quarry at Mile 26.51

Commerce & Industry

Newport was the location of numerous gypsum quarries in the early 20th century, several with spurs to the DAR Mainline.

Gallery

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  Gypsum quarry spurs in the Windsor, Three Mile Plains, Dimock's and Newport areas, from Canadian geological map, 1909.

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  Gypsum Train being loaded, probably at Mosher Quarry in Newport hauled by DAR locomotive No. 25, circa 1920.

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  "Digby" at Mosher's Quarry, at Newport, near Windsor circa 1923.

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  Topographic map from Falmouth to Ellershouse circa 1956.

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  Newport Station, photographed by Harold Jenkins, December 4, 1960.

References & Footnotes

• 1969 Memorandum of General Information