Newport, Nova Scotia

Mile 26.11 from Windsor Junction on the Halifax Subdivision (Mile 41.92 from Halifax)

Elevation: 119 feet above sea level

Facilities & Features

Newport was the location of numerous gypsum quarries in the early 20th century, several with spurs to the DAR Mainline.

1918 Track Chart of Newport
Gypsum quarry spurs in the Windsor, Three Mile Plains, Dimock's and Newport areas, from Canadian geological map, 1909.
Locomotive No. 4 "St. Croix" with a gypsum train at Moshers Quarry, Newport, date unknown.
Gypsum Train being loaded, probably at Mosher Quarry in Newport hauled by DAR locomotive No. 25, circa 1920.
"Digby" at Mosher's Quarry, at Newport, near Windsor circa 1923.
Topographic map from Falmouth to Ellershouse circa 1956.
Newport Station (before closure?).
Newport Station, photographed by Harold Jenkins, December 4, 1960.