Wilmot

Wilmot, Nova Scotia

Subdivision Kentville, Mile 27.1

• Next Station East: Kingston
• Next Station West: Middleton
• Start of Torbrook Mines Spur

Facilities & Features

• Wilmot Station

Commerce & Industry

• England's Furniture
• Frenchies

Description & History

This village near Middleton was at first served by a 150 foot x 7 foot platform and a 200 foot blind siding built by the Windsor & Annapolis Railway in 1869. A station building was added in 1879. Wilmot later became the junction for a three mile spur to Torbrook Mines which crossed the Annapolis River and ran south to the iron mines in Torbrook. The spur was completed in the fall of 1891 by the Torbrook Iron Company to serve three of the iron pits at Torbrook. The ore was shipped on the DAR to ironworks at Londonderry in Colchester County. Ore shipments from the spur were however short-lived and ceased about 1907.

Wilmot was the scene of one of the worst wrecks on the DAR. On January 14, 1894, a Windsor & Annapolis Railway snowplow extra derailed one mile east of Wilmot Station. The locomotive fell through the bridge at Gibbon's Brook killing both the engineer and fireman.

Gallery

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  No. 17 at the Wilmot Station in Wilmot circa 1900.

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  Fatal snowplow wreck at Wilmot, Jan. 15, 1894 with the wreckage of W&AR locomotive No. 7 and wedge snowplow.

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  A similar photograph of 1894.

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  DAR Locomotive 552 at Wilmot, date unknown.

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  Oregon Northwestern boxcar for England's Furniture in Wilmot.

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  Wilmot to Kingston

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  Annotated map detail showing the HSW and DAR Torbrook Mines Spurs, 1960.

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  Wilmot Station, July 22, 1962.

References & Footnotes

• Alexander MacNab, Windsor and Annapolis Railway, Report of Alexander MacNab Nov 1, 1873
• 1969 Memorandum of General Information