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Kentville Cornwallis River Bridge
Kentville Cornwallis River Bridge
- Spur Track D Kingsport, Mile 0.23
- Subdivision Kingsport, Mile 0.23
A 85 foot deck plate girder railway bridge on stone abutments that crosses Cornwallis River immediately north of the Kentville Roundhouse on mile .23 of the Kingsport Subdivision.(1) It was completed on October 30, 1889 when W&AR Locomotive No. 2 became the first locomotive to cross, pulling a work train across the bridge with ballast for construction of the Cornwallis Valley Railway.(2)
The bridge has a spillway trestle, a 45 foot four bent pile trestle just to the north at mile .27 acts to relieve pressure on the main bridge during floods.
SE End of Bridge Leaving Kentville Yard to CVR 45.079695, -64.504198 NW End of Bridge Leaving Kentville Yard to CVR 45.079694, -64.504197
References
(1) Bridge specs from CPR Trackplan of Kentville Railyard
(2) W.W. Clarke, Clarke's History of the Earliest Railways in Nova Scotia, page 11
No. 29 "Annapolis" holding down Cornwallis River Bridge at Kentville on March 14, 1920.
Kentville Roundhouse, turntable and machine shop from the coaling tower, 1940s or 50s. Cornwallis River Bridge visible in upper right of photo.
The Canada Foods Plant with the Kentville Roundhouse, plus the Kentville Water Tower, the Kentville Cornwallis River Bridge in the centre and the Spillway Trestle to the left, 1949.
DAR Kentville switcher No. 6227 beside the Kentville Roundhouse with the Kentville Cornwallis River Bridge and one of the Kentville Section Houses in background, circa 1956.
No. 2526 from Kingsport approaching the Kentville Cornwallis River Bridge on August 27, 1956.
No. 2526 from Kingsport approaching the Kentville Cornwallis River Bridge on August 27, 1956.
Deck view of Cornwallis River Bridge with No. 8131 at the south end beside the Kentville Roundhouse in August 1959.
The Spillway Trestle, the Kentville Cornwallis River Bridge and Kentville Roundhouse, October 1990.
Canada Foods Plant right and the Kentville Roundhouse taken from the Spillway Trestle with the Kentville Cornwallis River Bridge in the background, Fall 1991.
