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Pembertons
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Pembertons, Nova Scotia
Mile 29.90 from Windsor Junction on the Halifax Subdivision (Mile 45.62 from Halifax)
- Next Station East: Three Mile Plains
- Next Station West: Windsor
Facilities and Features
- Pembertons Station
Industry and Commerce
- Mile 29.84 - Curry's Corner Fruit Company Limited, 10,000 barrel apple warehouse[1]
- Mile 29.9 - Imperial Oil Bulk Dealer[2]
- Mile 29.74 - Wilkins Siding[3]
Description & History
This community between Three Mile Planes and Windsor was long known as Curry's Corner, but named Pembertons by the DAR.
Gallery
Note in the Engineering and Contract Record, 1914 on contract for a new apple warehouse for the Curry's Corner Fruit Company in Pembertons by J. H. Hicks & Sons, 1914.
Windsor Fire Insurance Map, Sheet 10, showing the Currys Corner Fruit Warehouse and the Pembertons station, July 1941.
Pembertons Station relocated to the Windsor Railyard with locomotive 8132 and the Windsor Water Tower in the background, 1961.