Flying Bluenose

This summertime fast luxury train was the premier passenger service on the DAR. It began in 1891 when the "missing gap" between Digby and Annapolis Royal was closed, creating an opportunity for a fast luxury service aimed at American tourists connecting Halifax with passenger steamers at Yarmouth. The DAR purchased the first Pullman parlour cars in all of Canada for the run. The Flying Bluenose was joined by the New Yorker in the 1920s, a similar fast summer-only train which connected to New York steamships at Yarmouth. The Flying Bluenose appears to have fallen vicitm to the decline in tourism during the depression and was cancelled about 1935.

The Flying Bluenose eastbound Yarmouth to Halifax train was Train No. 124 and the westbound Halifax to Yarmouth service was Train No. 125 Westbound.