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Image:Engine 18 Bridetown.jpg|[[DAR0018|No. 18]] at the bridge, [[Bridgetown]].
 
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File:Bridgetown 3 (1280x853).jpg|A close look at the [[Bridgetown Bridge]] on August 30, 2011.

Revision as of 17:57, 10 October 2018

Bridgetown Bridge

Mile 44.47 on the Kentville Subdivision, just east of the Bridgetown Station

The first railway crossing at Bridgetown over the Annapolis River was completed in 1869 and was described by W. W. Clarke as a covered railway bridge.[1] It was replaced by an iron truss bridge in 1881.[2] The final bridge was a 155-foor long steel through truss bridge.[3]

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References

  1. W.W. Clarke, Clarke's History of the Earliest Railways in Nova Scotia, page 38.
  2. Elizabeth Ruggles Coward, Bridgetown, Nova Scoita: its History Until 1900, Kentville Publishing, 1955, page 229.
  3. DAR Memorandum of General Information, page 13