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Image:Meteghan Station a.jpg|[[Meteghan Station]].
 
File:5618.jpg|[[Meteghan Station]]. May 19, 1975.  
 
File:5618.jpg|[[Meteghan Station]]. May 19, 1975.  
Image:Meteghan Station a.jpg|[[Meteghan Station]].
 
Image:Meteghan1990.jpg|Meteghan Station, 1990
 
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File:Meteg10039.JPG|VIA Rail shelter. April 1986.
 
File:Meteg10039.JPG|VIA Rail shelter. April 1986.
 
File:Meteg10040.JPG|VIA Rail shelter and station. April 1986.
 
File:Meteg10040.JPG|VIA Rail shelter and station. April 1986.
 
File:Meteg10042.JPG|VIA Rail shelter. April 1986.
 
File:Meteg10042.JPG|VIA Rail shelter. April 1986.
 
File:Meteg10062.JPG|VIA Rail shelter and station. April 1986.
 
File:Meteg10062.JPG|VIA Rail shelter and station. April 1986.
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Image:Meteghan1990.jpg|Meteghan Station, 1990
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Image:Meteghan1990c.jpg|Meteghan Station, 1990
 
Image:August 29 1993 DAR Meteghan station.jpg|Relocated VIA Rail shelter for sale, 1993.
 
Image:August 29 1993 DAR Meteghan station.jpg|Relocated VIA Rail shelter for sale, 1993.
 
Image:IMG 3825.jpg|Looking railway east at [[Meteghan Station]], 2006. The paved platform remains from VIA days.
 
Image:IMG 3825.jpg|Looking railway east at [[Meteghan Station]], 2006. The paved platform remains from VIA days.

Revision as of 00:27, 2 December 2013

Meteghan Station

Mile 57.2 at Meteghan on the Yarmouth Subdivison

In an email dated February 20, 2013, Phil Mason said "When we visited in May/June 1975, the DAR had just abolished the operators at several stations, Meteghan being one and Weymouth another. Because there was still RDC service, these stations had "caretakers" for awhile. This would be a person who would come in an hour or so before train time, and open up the waiting room.

Meteghan has a green and white flag. This is a signal for the passenger train to stop to pick up passengers at a "flag" stop. The caretaker would display the signal. In many places, the prospective passengers would do this.

Sadly, the world changed, and caretaker operated stations would get vandalised even in peaceful rural areas. Within a couple of years, the DAR boarded up or demolished the flag stop stations."