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==Facilities and Features== | ==Facilities and Features== | ||
* Pembertons Station | * Pembertons Station | ||
| − | * Curry's Corner Fruit Company Limited, 10,000 barrel apple warehouse<ref>Dominion Atlantic Railway, ''[[1927-DAR CHART of Apple and Produce Warehouses|DAR Chart of Apple and Produce Warehouses, February 23, 1927]]''</ref> | + | |
| + | ==Industry and Commerce== | ||
| + | * Mile 29.84 - Curry's Corner Fruit Company Limited, 10,000 barrel apple warehouse<ref>Dominion Atlantic Railway, ''[[1927-DAR CHART of Apple and Produce Warehouses|DAR Chart of Apple and Produce Warehouses, February 23, 1927]]''</ref> | ||
| + | * Mile 29.9 - Imperial Oil Bulk Dealer<ref>[https://www.cptracks.ca/data/TimeTables_1910_1967/ETT_DAR_55_1919_April1.pdf 1919 DAR Employee Time Table at the Canadian Pacific Historical Association Documents Library]</ref> | ||
| + | * Mile 29.74 - Wilkins Siding<ref>[https://www.cptracks.ca/data/TimeTables_1910_1967/ETT_DAR_55_1919_April1.pdf 1919 DAR Employee Time Table at the Canadian Pacific Historical Association Documents Library]</ref> | ||
==Description & History== | ==Description & History== | ||
| + | This community between Three Mile Planes and Windsor was long known as Curry's Corner, but named Pembertons by the DAR. | ||
==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||
<Gallery perrow=5> | <Gallery perrow=5> | ||
| + | File:Hicks Curry.jpg|Note in the ''Engineering and Contract Record'', 1914 on contract for a new [[Apple Warehouses|apple warehouse]] for the Curry's Corner Fruit Company in [[Pembertons]] by [[J. H. Hicks & Sons]], 1914. | ||
File:HA-29.90 Pembertons.jpg|1918 Track Chart of Pembertons | File:HA-29.90 Pembertons.jpg|1918 Track Chart of Pembertons | ||
| + | File:Windsor 1941 Sheet10.jpg|Windsor [[:Category:Fire Insurance Maps|Fire Insurance Map]], Sheet 10, showing the Currys Corner Fruit Warehouse and the [[Pembertons]] station, July 1941. | ||
File:Windsor_21_A16_East.jpg|Topographic map from Falmouth to Ellershouse circa 1956. | File:Windsor_21_A16_East.jpg|Topographic map from Falmouth to Ellershouse circa 1956. | ||
File:DAR - Pemberton Station Engine 8132 - Harold Jenkins Photo-1961.jpg|[[Pembertons]] Station relocated to the [[Windsor Railyard]] with [[CPR8132|locomotive 8132]] and the [[Windsor Water Tower]] in the background, 1961. | File:DAR - Pemberton Station Engine 8132 - Harold Jenkins Photo-1961.jpg|[[Pembertons]] Station relocated to the [[Windsor Railyard]] with [[CPR8132|locomotive 8132]] and the [[Windsor Water Tower]] in the background, 1961. | ||
Latest revision as of 22:38, 17 November 2024
Pembertons, Nova Scotia
Mile 29.90 from Windsor Junction on the Halifax Subdivision (Mile 45.62 from Halifax)
- Next Station East: Three Mile Plains
- Next Station West: Windsor
Facilities and Features
- Pembertons Station
Industry and Commerce
- Mile 29.84 - Curry's Corner Fruit Company Limited, 10,000 barrel apple warehouse[1]
- Mile 29.9 - Imperial Oil Bulk Dealer[2]
- Mile 29.74 - Wilkins Siding[3]
Description & History
This community between Three Mile Planes and Windsor was long known as Curry's Corner, but named Pembertons by the DAR.
Gallery
Note in the Engineering and Contract Record, 1914 on contract for a new apple warehouse for the Curry's Corner Fruit Company in Pembertons by J. H. Hicks & Sons, 1914.
1918 Track Chart of Pembertons
Windsor Fire Insurance Map, Sheet 10, showing the Currys Corner Fruit Warehouse and the Pembertons station, July 1941.
Topographic map from Falmouth to Ellershouse circa 1956.
Pembertons Station relocated to the Windsor Railyard with locomotive 8132 and the Windsor Water Tower in the background, 1961.
