Bear River, Nova Scotia

Subdivision Yarmouth, Mile 13.6
Next Station East: Deep Brook
Next Station West: Imbertville

Elevation 42'
Passing Track 914' long at station.

Bear River had a large wooden passenger and freight station built to Intercolonial Railway plans by the federal government when they constructed the missing link between Annapolis Royal and Digby including the massive Bear River Bridge, a mile east of the station. A curve just west of Bear River offered fine views of the Annapolis Basin used by several generations of railway photographers to showcase DAR trains on the "Bear River Curve".

Features & Facilities

Gallery

Track Schematic for Bear River.
Bear River circa 1890s.
Bear River circa 1890s.
Bear River station area to west of Bear River Bridge with Flying Bluenose, Train No. 124, circa 1906.
Bear River Bridge, looking east, 1906
Colour postcard of the Flying Bluenose entering the Bear River Curve.
Colour postcard of the Flying Bluenose at the Bear River Curve.
DAR train at the Bear River Curve, circa 1900.
A postcard of the Clarke Brothers Pulp Mill at Bear River soon after it opened, circa 1921.
No. 2528 eastbound at the Bear River Curve, circa 1950.
Train No. 95 at the Bear River curve in "Trains" magazine, 1951.
Bear River Curve 1973.
Bear River curve from the trailing cab of an RDC, June 13, 1979.
No. 1272 gently eases across the Bear River Bridge in the winter of 1988.
No. 1272 makes its way East across the Bear River Bridge in the winter of 1988.
Bear River VIA Rail stop. April 1986.
Bear River, looking railway East. April 1986.
Bear River VIA Rail stop. April 1986.
Bear River VIA Rail stop. April 1986.
Bear River VIA Rail stop. April 1986.