Aldershot

Aldershot, Nova Scotia

Mile 1.6 from Kentville on the Kingsport Subdivision, the Cornwallis Valley Railway

Mile 1.6 from Kentville on the Spur Track D Kingsport after 1961

• Next Station North: Mill Village
• Next Station South: Kentville

Facilities

• Spur Irving Oil, Mile .55 (1930s)

• Aldershot Wye

• Camp Aldershot Military Station and telegraph office

• Aldershot Station

History

Beginning as a small station stop on the Cornwallis Valley Railway in 1889, Aldershot grew in importance in 1904 when it was chosen as the militia training base for western Nova Scotia which attracted special troop trains. A wye was built to turn troop train locomotives. Additional facilities were added in both world wars which eventually included several supply warehouses located along the wye and two station buildings. The Aldershot wye was also used by DAR Kentville Roundhouse staff for testing refitted locomotives as they could be given a short run from Kentville and turned at Aldershot without disrupting mainline traffic.

Gallery

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  Aldershot Station postcard with troop train from the Aldershot base, circa 1912.

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  Derailment of troop train bound for Camp Aldershot in the Kentville Railyard, Sept. 9, 1913.

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  Camp Aldershot Military Station circa 1916.

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  Aldershot Station, dated August 1943.

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  Topographic map from Berwick to Kentville circa 1956.

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  CVR tracks at the Brooklyn Street level crossing, Meadowview, near Aldershot, Spring 1985.

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  Camp Aldershot telegraph Station, 2008.

References and Footnotes

• Dominion Atlantic Railway Employee Time Table September 25, 1949, Library and Archives Canada, PMP - HE.2804 DC
• "Time Table No. 77 For Employees June 21, 1931", Dominion Atlantic Railway, p. 3

External Links

History of Camp Aldershot, Canadian Army Cadets