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[[:Category:Subdivision Truro|Subdivision Truro]], Mile 45.55
 
[[:Category:Subdivision Truro|Subdivision Truro]], Mile 45.55
  
Next Station West: [[Clifton]]
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Next Station East: [[Clifton]]
  
Next Station East: [[Green Oaks]]
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Next Station West: [[Green Oaks]]
  
 
==Facilities & Features==
 
==Facilities & Features==
  
*[[Princeport Road Station]]
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* Princeport Road Station
  
 
==Description & History==
 
==Description & History==
 
==Operations & Orders==
 
  
 
==Gallery==
 
==Gallery==
 
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File:DAR - Princeport Road Station -Harold Jenkins Photo-9April1961.JPG|[[Princeport Road]], April 9, 1961.
 
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=Lower Truro, Nova Scotia=
 
 
[[:Category:Subdivision Truro|Subdivision Truro]], Mile 53.04
 
 
Next Station West: [[Truro]]
 
 
Next Station East: [[Clifton]]
 
 
==Facilities & Features==
 
 
*[[Lower Truro Station]]
 
 
==Description & History==
 
 
Lower Truro was the scene of a serious fatal accident on October 12, 1920. Locomotive [[DAR0026|No. 26]] with [[DAR0027|No. 27]] were in a double headed freight from [[Truro]] and were wrecked after striking pigs or a cows at high speed. Fireman Fred Yould on No. 26 was killed. The frame of No. 27 was buckled beyond repair and it had to be scrapped.<ref>J.B. King "Pigs Ditch 2 Engines, Kill Midland Fireman: Writers Discourse on DAR Old Timers", ''Halifax Chronicle Herald''</ref>
 
 
==Operations & Orders==
 
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Image:DAR Wreck 1.jpg|A double header wreck in 1920 at [[Lower Truro]] involving [[DAR0026|No. 26]] and [[DAR0027|No, 27]].
 
Image:DAR Wreck 2.jpg|A double header wreck in 1920 at [[Lower Truro]] involving [[DAR0026|No. 26]] and [[DAR0027|No, 27]].
 
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Latest revision as of 21:10, 16 November 2018


Princeport Road, Nova Scotia

Subdivision Truro, Mile 45.55

Next Station East: Clifton

Next Station West: Green Oaks

Facilities & Features

  • Princeport Road Station

Description & History

Gallery

References & Footnotes

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External Links