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Image:Bridgetown Station and Yard 1975.jpg|[[Bridgetown Station]] and railyard on July 18, 1975. | Image:Bridgetown Station and Yard 1975.jpg|[[Bridgetown Station]] and railyard on July 18, 1975. | ||
File:Slide 74 - Bridgetown Station - 9 feb 76.JPG|[[Bridgetown Station]] 9th February 1976. | File:Slide 74 - Bridgetown Station - 9 feb 76.JPG|[[Bridgetown Station]] 9th February 1976. | ||
| + | File:Bridgetown, Nova Scotia, 26 May'77.jpg|[[Bridgetown Station]] viewed from [[Train_No._2#1968_-_1975.2C_Yarmouth_-_Halifax_Daily_Afternoon_.28Except_Sunday.29_1st_Class_Passenger_Service|Train No. 2]] with the [[Bridgetown Bridge|Bridgetown Railway Bridge]] in background, May 26, 1977. | ||
File:DAR_-_Bridgetown_Station-Harold_Jenkins_Photo-3August1979.jpg|[[Bridgetown Station]] on a foggy day, August 3, 1979. | File:DAR_-_Bridgetown_Station-Harold_Jenkins_Photo-3August1979.jpg|[[Bridgetown Station]] on a foggy day, August 3, 1979. | ||
Image:F1000022.jpg|The [[Bridgetown Station]] in 1981 and the end of crew car [[DAR412201|No. 412201]]. | Image:F1000022.jpg|The [[Bridgetown Station]] in 1981 and the end of crew car [[DAR412201|No. 412201]]. | ||
Revision as of 22:00, 23 April 2021
Bridgetown Station
The first Bridgetown station was a standard Windsor & Annapolis Railway passenger and freight station. In 1915, the Bridgetown Board of Trade asked the DAR for a new and more modern station, perhaps influenced by the finely decorated new Annapolis Royal Station which had just been completed. In November 1918, a fire destroyed the Bridgetown Station.[1]
It was replaced in 1919 by a Tudor revival station based on CPR Station No. 16 plans[2], updated by DAR engineering staff in Kentville on Feb. 11, 1919. The hip-roofed Tudor revival station contained diamond paned transoms over all the doors and windows and platform canopies on both ends. There were two waiting rooms, one for men (a smoking area) and one for women and children with washrooms and an agents office in the centre and a small baggage and freight room on the east side. About 1960,[3] as passenger service dwindled compared to freight, a large clapboard freight shed was added to the east end, replacing the women's waiting room and baggage room with a large freight room, doubling the size of the building.[4]
The station closed in 1990 when passenger service ended and the Kentville subdivision was abandoned. Station grounds were piled high with railway ties as the DAR's mainline was dismantled. In June of 1994 both land and building were purchased by Joanne Acker. Seven weeks of extensive renovations generated the End of the Line Pub. In 2020, the building was purchased again by Lunn’s Mill Beer Co. and the establishment renovated and renamed "The Station" with tasteful references to the D.A.R. and the sailing days in the menus and the acoutrements[5].
Gallery
Bridgetown Station with the Bridgetown Bridge in background, circa 1920.
DAR tracks ripped up at Bridgetown by the ice jam and flood, with the Bridgetown Station at centre in the distance, Mar. 15, 1920.
Bridgetown Station and locomotive No. 2552 with an eastbound train, 1949.
Bridgetown Station, August 1960.
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Bridgetown Station before lengthening in 1960.
Bridgetown Station on July 18, 1975.
Bridgetown Station and railyard on July 18, 1975.
Bridgetown Station 9th February 1976.
Bridgetown Station viewed from Train No. 2 with the Bridgetown Railway Bridge in background, May 26, 1977.
Bridgetown Station on a foggy day, August 3, 1979.
The Bridgetown Station in 1981 and the end of crew car No. 412201.
Bridgetown Station, April 1986.
Bridgetown Station, April 1986.
Bridgetown Station, April 1986.
Bridgetown Station, April 1986.
Waiting room in Bridgetown Station, April 1986.
Operator's bay in Bridgetown Station, April 1986.
Storage area in Bridgetown Station, April 1986.
Bridgetown Station August 29, 1993.
Bridgetown signboard in the restaurant.
The Bridgetown Station, now the End of the Line Pub, on August 30, 2011.
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References
- ↑ Harry Jost and Barry Moody, "Canadian Pacific Railway Station Bridgetown, Nova Scotia", Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada Railway Station Report, RSR-095, 1991, Canadian Pacific Historical Association Documents Library
- ↑ (1) Plans for CPR Station No. 16 at Canadian Pacific Historical Association
- ↑ A Harold Jenkins photograph in August 1960 shows the original station layout had not yet been altered: [1]
- ↑ Harry Jost and Barry Moody, "Canadian Pacific Railway Station Bridgetown, Nova Scotia", Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada Railway Station Report, RSR-095, 1991, Canadian Pacific Historical Association Documents Library
- ↑ "The Station"
![[1]](http://dardpi.ca/wiki/index.php?title=File:DAR_-_Bridgetown_Station-Harold_Jenkins_Photo-August1960.JPG){kind=link}