Deep Brook station

[briantrainman]

My cousin lives in Deep Brook and is looking for information on the location of the station there. Apparently it was relocated at one time and he trying to find out both locations. I said I would post here and see if anyone has that information. Thanks to anyone that can help. Brian Lilly

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Any recognition of where this sign is?

http://dardpi.ca/wiki/index.php?title=F ... er1962.JPG

We have no photos of the station but being that:
The Cornwallis station was at Mile 8.9
and the Deep Brook station was at Mile 10.4

would that help locate at least one of them fairly closely?

The other alternative is to look back at some of the time tables like the 1946 to start and get the mileage and then work forward until it no longer appear and note the mileage then back into the 30s and 20s to see of the mileage changed to track down where both of them might have been.
http://dardpi.ca/wiki/images/TimeTable1946pt2of2.jpg

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I couldn't leave this alone. Love a good mystery.

As far as I can see from the mileage on the schedule from 1911 to 1962 there was 3.23 miles difference between Bear River and Deep Brook. Then in 1963 and 1967 it dropped to 2.3 miles between the two then in 1968 went back to 3.2 and again in 1972 dropped to 2.3 and back to 3.2 in 1978.

Interesting. I wonder what this tells us? Was there a flag stop location AND a station? Check my figures first for sure!

DAR
Distance from Halifax
1911 Bear River 142.96 Deep Brook 139.73; 3.23 Dif
1921 Bear River 144.44 Deep Brook 141.22; 3.22 Dif
1923 Bear River 144.44 Deep Brook 141.22; 3.22 Dif
1929 Bear River 144.44 Deep Brook 141.22; 3.22 Dif
Distance from Annapolis Royal
1931 Bear River 13.63 Deep Brook 10.49; 3.14 Dif
Distance from Halifax
1937 Bear River 144 Deep Brook 141; 3 Dif
1938 Bear River 144.44 Deep Brook 141.22; A-B 3.22, B-C 1.50
1946 Bear River 144.44 Deep Brook 141.22 Cornwallis 139.72; A-B 3.22, B-C 1.50, A-C 4.72 Dif
Distance from Annapolis Royal
1951 Bear River 13.6 Deep Brook 10.4 Cornwallis 8.9; A-B 3.2, B-C 1.5, A-C 4.7 Dif
1956 Not on dayliner schedule
1961 Bear River 13.6 Deep Brook 10.4 Cornwallis 9.1; A-B 3.2, B-C 1.7, A-C 4.5 Dif
1962 Bear River 13.6 Deep Brook 10.4 Cornwallis 9.1; A-B 3.2, B-C 1.7, A-C 4.5 Dif
Distance from Halifax
1963 Bear River 144.5 Deep Brook 142.2 Cornwallis 139.8; A-B 2.3, B-C 2.4, A-C 4.7 Dif
1967 Bear River 144.5 Deep Brook 142.2 Cornwallis 139.8; A-B 2.3, B-C 2.4, A-C 4.7 Dif
Distance from Annapolis Royal
1968 Bear River 13.6 Deep Brook 10.4 Cornwallis 9.1; A-B 3.2, B-C 1.7, A-C 4.5 Dif
Distance from Halifax
1972 Bear River 144.5 Deep Brook 142.2 Cornwallis 139.8 A-B 2.3, B-C 2.4, A-C 4.7 Dif
Distance from Annapolis Royal
1978 Bear River 13.6 Deep Brook 10.4 Cornwallis 9.1; A-B 3.2, B-C 1.7, A-C 4.5 Dif

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This is quite an interesting problem. The two figures for the mileage now each are a possible location. However, the most likely location of the two as the original is at 1.7 miles from Cornwallis.
From the air you can see the marker. Google shows a green strip from the air but on the road view, this green strip is a road down to where the station most likely was and probably where the whistle stop sign was and might even be.

Now the other location at 2.4 miles from Cornwallis which, who knows, might be legit too is just down from where the old gypsum loading facility on the gut used to be. And it's right by a road so it's a likely place to put a station. Could it have been used only as long as the gypsum docks were running and then they switched back to the original location?

[Paul Charland]

Morning All,

Just my thoughts on the location of the station in Deep Brook. When I was looking for the location of the station or just the place to put the platform marker in MSTS I looked through Google Earth shots and they only went back as far as 2015... but, if you look at the crossing on Shore Road, you will see the remnants of the passing siding starting just north east of the crossing and heading south west along the length of the parallel road. I would think a probable location might be on the north east corner of the crossing, as it appears there might be a scare of a siding coming off the main and heading north east on a bit of a curve.



Paul

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A photo with some other structure for reference would be such a big help.

Brian, does your cousin have any photos?

[briantrainman]

Thanks everyone for helping me with this issue. It was much appreciated. Unfortunately my cousin, Edwin Ditmars has lost touch with me. Phone is disconnected and no answer to any emails since my initial querie. As far as I know he was my last living relative down east. I checked for a death notice with no luck but he may have ended up in a long term care facility or nursing home. Brian

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Seems to me that we might make an inquiry on the Facebook page as I'm pretty sure there folks from around Deep Brook who might be able to confirm your cousins state.

[briantrainman]

I haven’t been on the Facebook page yet but will check it out soon. Brian

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I would love to see the forum continue to be the place for more detailed and serious discussions that can be found easily and stay on one thread. I'm sure by now the Facebook users who have enjoyed the social aspect have also discovered that finding anything that has gone by in weeks and months past is a crap shoot.

Never the less, there are a lot of casual users there and you have a much better chance of locating someone in Deep Brook there that might have family news.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/DARDPI.ca