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Mochelle

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Mochelle, Nova Scotia

Subdivision Kentville, Mile 55.4

Elevation: 32 feet

Facilities & Features

  • Flag Stop Station
  • No siding
  • 15 foot pile trestle over Howe Creek at Mile 56.7[1]

Description & History

This small community of about 170 people half way between Annapolis Royal and Round Hill was named after and early French settler.[2] It was the scene of a major passenger train derailment on January 25, 1921.[3]

Gallery

References & Footnotes

1931 Dominion Atlantic Railway Employee Time Table - June 21, 1931, p.4

  1. *1969 Memorandum of General Information, p. 13
  2. "Mochelle", Place-Names and Places of Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Archives
  3. "CARS LEAVE RAILS NEAR ANNAPOLIS The Dominion Atlantic Express headed to Yarmouth Meets with Accident", Halifax Chronicle Herald, January 26, 1921, Carl H. Riff Notes.