Halifax, Nova Scotia

Halifax Subdivision Mile 0 on Canadian National's Bedford Subdivision

Next station west: Armdale

Mile 0 on Canadian National's Chester Subdivision

Facilities & Features

D.A.R. Freight Shed. The DAR maintained its own freight and express shed in Halifax for many years.
Lord Nelson Hotel. The DAR was also a part owner of the Lord Nelson Hotel which functioned as the DAR's railway hotel in Halifax.
Halifax CNR Station & Nova Scotia Hotel

Commerce & Industry

Description & History

The DAR gained access to Halifax through running rights over 15 miles of the Bedford Subdivision of the Canadian National. This access was inherited from rights granted to the Windsor and Annapolis Railway from the Intercolonial Railway. This gave the DAR to access the large terminal station and the shipping piers of Halifax.

Operations & Orders

DAR trains used the Intercolonial's North Street Station until 1919 when Canadian National shifted passenger trains to the South End where a large station was completed in 1927.

Gallery

Map of Halifax North Street Station, 1874
Halifax -- North Street Intercolonial Railway Station -- 1902.
The westbound Flying Bluenose inside the North Street Station at Halifax, circa 1912.
Halifax circa 1890s.
Halifax circa 1890s.
Halifax Deepwater Terminal Yard, with DAR apple train, 1925.
Locomotive No. 540 arriving at Halifax pulling a passenger, most likely Train No. 98, circa 1935.
The DAR's Lord Nelson Hotel in Halifax as depicted in the DAR's 1936 Time Table.
Combine No.32 in Halifax with Pier 21 in background, Sept. 13, 1938.
Locomotive 531 in Halifax, date unknown.
Still motion picture film with DAR No. 2552 at Halifax station with observation car Annapolis Royal, 1939.
No. 2511 at Halifax in August 1949 after arriving with Train No. 96.
No. 2511 at Halifax in August 1949 after arriving with Train No. 96.
Train No. 99 at Halifax on July 7, 1954 ready to go to Yarmouth.
Locomotive No. 2526 with short passenger train, between Yonge Avenue and Tower Road, Halifax, June 1956.
No. 9058 on display at Halifax Station, August 15, 1956.
Locomotives No. 2209 with passenger train and No. 8138 with mixed train at Halifax May 1959.
Locomotive No. 2209 with a passenger train, Halifax, December 17, 1958.
Train schedule board at the Halifax Station, July 18, 1967.
No. 9059 at the Halifax Terminal, May 1974.
Halifax passenger terminal and freight yard on July 21, 1975.
9062 in at Halifax Terminal, June 21, 1976.
A westbound "extra" passing Prince's Lodge in Halifax. May 12, 1979.
Eastbound freight at Rockingham, June 2, 1979.
Westbound freight at Rockingham,June 2. 1979.
Westbound freight passing CN Bedford station, June 23, 1979.
The tracks through the cut leading into the Halifax Railyard in 1986.
VIA Rail RDC No. 6143 and VIA Rail RDC No. 6145 about to depart Halifax, the last passenger train on the DAR, Jan. 14, 1990.