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Falmouth Station
Falmouth Station
First Station 1869-1888
Falmouth initially had a 26' x 15' station with a 120' x 12' station platform.[1]
Second station 1888-1959
A small Windsor and Annapolis Railway style station with a gothic window was built in 1888.[2] The baggage room was later extended to make it a medium-sized station. It survived until 1959 when it burned or was demolished.
Gallery
Falmouth Station with Windsor in background and new E.E Thompson Warehouse, 1906.
Falmouth Station with the E. E. Armstrong Apple Warehouse and Armstrong's two refrigerator cars Nos. 2500 and 2501, circa 1906.
DAR westbound freight at Falmouth Station with a brakeman on E. E. Armstrong's refrigerator car No. 2500, circa 1910.
Falmouth Station, 1958.
RDC No. 9058 or No. 9059 at Falmouth Station with the Falmouth Fruit Company Warehouse, 1959.
Locomotive No. 8133 hauling Train No. 11, passing ruins of Falmouth Station and the Falmouth Fruit Company Warehouse, July 1959.
References and Footnotes
- ↑ Alexander MacNab, Windsor and Annapolis Railway, Report of Alexander MacNab Nov 1, 1873, page 21
- ↑ Construction date given in transcript of the Department of Railways and Canals, Engineer's Report, 1888, compiled by J. B. King, Scotia Railway Society Collection, Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management, RG28 Series S Vol. 4 File 15
