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Centreville

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Centreville, Nova Scotia

Centreville Station

This village north of Kentville was a busy junction on the DAR's Cornwallis Valley Railway branchline, seeing ten trains a day in peak years.[1] At Centreville, the line north from Kentville split east and west. The tracks of the Kingsport Subdivision continued east to Kingsport while the Weston Subdivision tracks headed west to Weston. A railway trade magazine article in 1908 mentioned the then-proposed Weston Subdivision. The Centreville junction resulted in a complex track plan in the middle of the village which included a large wye, a siding and a spur track which cut across the wye at a diamond crossing. The Centreville station was surrounded on all sides by five large apple warehouses. The station agent for many years was Prescott Neville (1896-1984.)[2] The tracks to Centreville were abandoned in 1961. Today, while the tracks and station are long gone, two warehouses and the roadbed of the wye survive.

Facilities:

  • Three fruit warehouses on north side served by a spur track
  • Two fruit warehouses on the south side served by 6 car siding
  • Station, daytime agent/operator

Previous Station: Steam Mill Village

Next Station on Weston Subdivision (west): Northville

Next Station on Kingsport Subdivision (east): Ford Crossing

Gallery

  • Locomotive No. 11 "Acadia" at Centreville.

  • Locomotive No. 470 delivers the mail at Centreville.

  • Centreville Station from the east.

  • CDCDA Apple Warehouse Thumb.jpg

    Centreville Station surrounded by apple warehouses.

  • Centreville looking east from the station.

  • Station 1940's

  • Centreville Station with CPR boxcar 250343 parked at an apple warehouse, October 1958.

  • Centreville Station with passengers and train crew, S. Belcher apple warehouse in the background, 1959.

  • "Passenger fares from Centreville station".

  • Wooden box from Centreville station.

  • Wooden box from Centreville station.

  • A double header apple train in Centreville.

  • Topographic map from Berwick to Kentville circa 1956.

  • Centreville warehouse, October 2007

  • Details freight doors, Centreville warehouse, October 2007

  • Detail freight door, Centreville warehouse, October 2007

  • Detail ventilator, Centreville warehouse, October 2007

References and Footnotes

  1. ↑ In the 1920s and 30s, ten trains a day passed through Centreville on Saturdays with eight trains a day on Mondays and Wednesdays. 1931 Dominion Atlantic Railway Employee Time Table - June 21, 1931
  2. ↑ [http://www.ve1bc.com/files/THE%20CORNWALLIS%20VALLEY%20RAILROAD.pdf "Cornwallis Valley Railway", by Spurgeon G. “Spud” Roscoe, page 6]
  • Dominion Atlantic Railway Employee Time Table September 25, 1949, Library and Archives Canada, PMP - HE.2804 DC

1931 Dominion Atlantic Railway Employee Time Table - June 21, 1931

External Links

Centreville District Community Development Association web site.

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