Clementsport, Nova Scotia

Subdivision Yarmouth, Mile 7.40
Elevation unknown
Passing track 1267' long (1969).
Next Station East: Upper Clements
Next Station West: Cornwallis

Feature and Facilities

90 foot pile trestle over public road and small brook, Mile 7.14
Clementsport Station, Mile 7.4, Scheduled stop from 1894 to 1990
Overhead timber bridge carrying public road, Mile 7.51
Clementsport Bridge, over Moose River, Mile 7.67

History

Regular rail service began on July 27, 1891 after the federal government completed the bridges of the "missing link" between Annapolis Royal and Digby, including the massive Clementsport Bridge. Service began with trains of the Western Counties Railway in 1891 which connected to the Windsor & Annapolis Railway at Annapolis Royal.^[1] The Dominion Atlantic Railway took over service in 1894 after the WCR and the WAR merged to create the DAR.

Gallery

CPR Track chart showing track profile of Clementsport and the Clementsport Bridge, Mar. 18, 1918.
First Clementsport Station, circa 1905.
Clementsport and the Clementsport Bridge open for an inbound schooner, circa 1895.
Clementsport Bridge and wharves, circa 1900.
A postcard showing an eastbound passenger train crossing the Clementsport Bridge, Oct. 18, 1905.
The Clementsport Bridge with the village of the Clementsport in the background, circa 1940.
Clementsport and the Clementsport Bridge, air photo by the Nova Scotia Information Service, 1950s.
Second Clementsport Station, east end with siding and level crossing in foreground, July 1959.
A snowbound RDC at Clementsport, 1970.
RDC No. 9062 crossing the pile trestle at Mile 7.1 just east of Clementsport, Sept. 24, 1976.
VIA Rail poster for The Evangeline "Dayliner" with a westbound RDC on the Clementsport Bridge, circa 1985.