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Wolfville
Mile 49.5 from Windsor Junction on the Halifax Subdivision (Mile 65.36 from Halifax)
- Next Station East: Grand Pre
- Next Station West: Port Williams
Facilities & Features
Commerce & Industry
Description & History
According to Historic Wolfville: Grand Pre and Countryside was to have been the headquarters for Windsor & Annapolis but after the Engines arrived there was some disagreements with land owners. And because of this disagreement the headquarters was moved to Kentville. (3)
Operations & Orders
Gallery
Wolfville Station, freight shed and trackside warehouses, circa 1920.
Wolfville in the distance viewed from Grand Pre air view from east with the Grand Pre Station, Water Tower and memorial park in the foreground, 1931.
Aerial view of Wolfville Railyard.
Dykes near Wolfville, with DAR track.
Vernon Smith, civil engineer of the W&AR, commemoration statue in Wolfville, DAR tracks in background, April 15, 2018.
References & Footnotes
- Alexander MacNab, Windsor and Annapolis Railway, Report of Alexander MacNab Nov 1, 1873
- 1969 Memorandum of General Information
- (3) Tom Sheppard, Historic Wolfville: Grand Pre and Countryside, page 161.