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| + | File:470a.jpg|[[DAR0470|DAR locomotive No. 470]] with Train No. 11 at the [[Kingsport Station]], circa 1942. | ||
File:DAR - Train Crew - Kingsport - Harold Jenkins Photo - Unknown Date - August1943.JPG|[[DAR0470|Locomotive No. 470]] with crew at [[Kingsport]], June 1943. | File:DAR - Train Crew - Kingsport - Harold Jenkins Photo - Unknown Date - August1943.JPG|[[DAR0470|Locomotive No. 470]] with crew at [[Kingsport]], June 1943. | ||
| − | File: | + | File:DAR - Train Crew - Kingsport - Harold Jenkins Photo - Unknown Date - Summer 1946.JPG|Crew of the [[Kingsport]] train at the [[Kingsport Station]], summer 1946. |
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Revision as of 20:02, 25 March 2018
Kingsport Station c. 1890 - 1968
Mile 13.6 on the Kingsport Subdivision.
Located north of mainline directly facing the Mayflower Fruit Company warehouse.
Wooden passenger and freight station with daytime agent operator.
Telephone call: two long rings(1)
Station Agents:
- Jack G. Glover c.1930 - c.1950 (2)
Built c. 1890. Destroyed by large fire in 1968 which also destroyed the Kingsport Fruit Company warehouse (3)
Gallery
DAR locomotive No. 470 with Train No. 11 at the Kingsport Station, circa 1942.
Locomotive No. 470 with crew at Kingsport, June 1943.
Crew of the Kingsport train at the Kingsport Station, summer 1946.
References
(1) Dominion Atlantic Railway Employee Time Table September 25, 1949, Library and Archives Canada, pmp -HE.2804 DC
(2) Kentville Advertiser, April 29, 1937, Harold Jenkins 1945 photograph in Leon Barron Collection.
External Links
(3) Cora Atkinson, A History of Kingsport, Nova Scotia], p. 26
