Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

Subdivision Yarmouth, Mile 86.0

Yarmouth was the western terminus of the Dominion Atlantic Railway. Tracks continued a few hundred feet west to interchange with the Halifax and South Western Railway.

History

Features & Facilities

Click here to see the 1925 Yarmouth Rail Yard Blueprint with trackage, industries and property lines.

Local Industries and Businesses

Gallery

WCR Picnic Train at Yarmouth, probably May 11, 1875.
Bird's Eve View of Yarmouth Nova Scotia 1889 with the Yarmouth Station; Enginehouse; Yarmouth Duck and Canvas Company and views of Hebron and Weymouth, 1889.
Detail of Yarmouth Railyard, facilities and customers in the Bird's Eve View of Yarmouth Nova Scotia 1889.
Yarmouth Ticket Office, circa 1900.
Locomotive No. 16 beside the wharf at Yarmouth circa 1900.
A slightly different view of No. 16 switching cars on the Yarmouth Wharf.
No. 26, "Governor Cox" with a Baggage Express Car No. 3858 in official train for Massachusetts Governor Channing Cox at Yarmouth on either July 21, 1923 or July 28, 1924.
No. 26, "Governor Cox" with Baggage Express Car No. 3858 and Canadian National business car No. 54 in official train for Massachusetts Governor Channing Cox in Yarmouth on either July 21, 1923 or July 28, 1924.
Canadian National business car No. 54 and Dominion Atlantic business car "Nova Scotia" at Yarmouth in official train for Massachusetts Governor Channing Cox on either July 21, 1923 or July 28, 1924.
Yarmouth Water Front 31st July 1931. The two vessels are likely SS Evangeline and SS Yarmouth.
Yarmouth Cotton Mills, with DAR tracks adjacent, 1931
The DAR's Lakeside Inn, Yarmouth, as depicted in the DAR 1936 Time Table.
Train No. 98 and engine No. 2551 meeting the SS Yarmouth at the Boston boat dock at Yarmouth, NS in August, 1949.
Train No. 98 and engine No. 2551 meeting the SS Yarmouth at the Boston boat dock at Yarmouth, NS in August, 1949.
Locomotive No. 2552 and tank car in a minor mishap at Yarmouth, Aug. 8, 1950.
No. 2551 in Yarmouth with the Dominion Textile Company, August 28, 1953.
Westbound Evangeline passes Dominion Textile Company in the 1980's.
RDCs No. 6136 and No. 6119 at the Windsor Junction Station at the end of DAR passenger service, Jan. 13 1990.
Last Halifax - Yarmouth Passenger Run on DAR - Yarmouth, Jan. 14, 1990.