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==[[Windsor]] Station==
 
==[[Windsor]] Station==
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As one of the first railway terminus in all of Nova Scotia, Windsor has been the home to a variety of stations.
  
 
== Wood Covered Station 1858 - c. 1881 ==
 
== Wood Covered Station 1858 - c. 1881 ==
 
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The first Windsor station was built by the Nova Scotia Railway. Typical of many early stations in the Maritimes, in the era of small locomotives, it had a covered platform. The Windsor platform was expanded in 1871 to cover three tracks" one for the Nova Scotia Railway, one for the new [[Windsor and Annapolis Railway]] and one for interchange.(1)  It included a built in water tank for locomotives fed by rainwater collected from the large roof.(2)
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Image:First Windsor Station.jpg|The first [[Windsor Station]].
 
Image:First Windsor Station.jpg|The first [[Windsor Station]].
 
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==Wood Station 1881 - 195?==
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== Wood Station 1881 - 195? ==
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The second Windsor Station was built to [[Intercolonial Railway]] plans during the period when the Intercolonial was still operating the Windsor Branch.
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Image:DAR0025b.jpg|[[DAR0025|No. 25]], "Strathcona" leading the Royal Train at [[Windsor Station]] in [[Windsor]] NS in 1901.
 
Image:DAR0025b.jpg|[[DAR0025|No. 25]], "Strathcona" leading the Royal Train at [[Windsor Station]] in [[Windsor]] NS in 1901.
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==References==
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(1) Peter M. Latta, ''Old Railway Stations of the Maritimes'' (St. Agnes Press, 1998), page 11.
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(2) [[W.W. Clarke]], [[Clarke's History of the Earliest Railways of Nova Scotia]], page 37.
  
 
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[[Category:Stations]]

Revision as of 21:01, 25 April 2009

Windsor Station

As one of the first railway terminus in all of Nova Scotia, Windsor has been the home to a variety of stations.

Wood Covered Station 1858 - c. 1881

The first Windsor station was built by the Nova Scotia Railway. Typical of many early stations in the Maritimes, in the era of small locomotives, it had a covered platform. The Windsor platform was expanded in 1871 to cover three tracks" one for the Nova Scotia Railway, one for the new Windsor and Annapolis Railway and one for interchange.(1) It included a built in water tank for locomotives fed by rainwater collected from the large roof.(2)

Wood Station 1881 - 195?

The second Windsor Station was built to Intercolonial Railway plans during the period when the Intercolonial was still operating the Windsor Branch.

Brick Station 190?-19??

Metal Station 19??-Present

References

(1) Peter M. Latta, Old Railway Stations of the Maritimes (St. Agnes Press, 1998), page 11.

(2) W.W. Clarke, Clarke's History of the Earliest Railways of Nova Scotia, page 37.