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| + | File:Gertridge5.jpg|A photographic postcard of a westbound train pulling into [[Cambridge Station]], circa 1895. | ||
File:Barkhouse_Family_at_Cambridge_Station_1915.jpg|[[Cambridge Station]] and evaporator 1915. Thanks to Dorothy Barkhouse-Rafuse for the family picture. | File:Barkhouse_Family_at_Cambridge_Station_1915.jpg|[[Cambridge Station]] and evaporator 1915. Thanks to Dorothy Barkhouse-Rafuse for the family picture. | ||
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File:KE-07.00 Cambridge.jpg|C.P.R. track profile drawing for [[Cambridge]] showing locations of apple warehouses, stock pen, cattle chute and the [[Cambridge Station]], Mar. 18, 1918. | File:KE-07.00 Cambridge.jpg|C.P.R. track profile drawing for [[Cambridge]] showing locations of apple warehouses, stock pen, cattle chute and the [[Cambridge Station]], Mar. 18, 1918. | ||
File:Berwick 21 H2 East.jpg|Topographic map from Berwick to Kentville circa 1956. | File:Berwick 21 H2 East.jpg|Topographic map from Berwick to Kentville circa 1956. | ||
Revision as of 17:53, 4 March 2022
Cambridge, Nova Scotia
Subdivision Kentville, Mile 7.0
- Next Station East: Coldbrook
- Next Station West: Waterville
Facilities & Features
- Cambridge Station
- 1332, 26 car siding, south side mainline
- Cattle chute, by John Fox warehouse
- Livestock pen, by station
Commerce & Industry
Cambridge contained several fruit warehouses including one of the first apple warehouses built on the DAR as well as, for a short time, a large apple evaporator on the south side of the tracks across from the station.
In 1927, the three apple warehouses were, east to west:[1]
- John Fox warehouse, 10,000 barrel capy.
- John Durno warehouse, 10,000 barrel capy.
- Herbert Oyler warehouse, 10,000 barrel capy.
Description & History
Cambridge remained a flag stop until June 1980.[2]
Gallery
A photographic postcard of a westbound train pulling into Cambridge Station, circa 1895.
Cambridge Station and evaporator 1915. Thanks to Dorothy Barkhouse-Rafuse for the family picture.
C.P.R. track profile drawing for Cambridge showing locations of apple warehouses, stock pen, cattle chute and the Cambridge Station, Mar. 18, 1918.
Topographic map from Berwick to Kentville circa 1956.
Cambridge Station sign from the flag stop era, November 18, 1962.
1977 aerial photo.
References & Footnotes
- Alexander MacNab, Windsor and Annapolis Railway, Report of Alexander MacNab Nov 1, 1873
- 1969 Memorandum of General Information
- ↑ Dominion Atlantic Railway, DAR Chart of Apple and Produce Warehouses, February 23, 1927
- ↑ Scotian Railroad Society News April 1980
