Centreville

Centreville, Nova Scotia

• Subdivision Kingsport, Mile 4.8
• Subdivision Weston, Mile 0

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This village north of Kentville was a junction on the DAR's Cornwallis Valley Railway branchline. The line from Kentville split at Centreville with the tracks of the Kingsport Subdivision continued east to Kingsport while the Weston Subdivision tracks headed west to Weston. 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 four large apple warehouses. Today, while the tracks and station are long gone, two warehouses and the roadbed of the wye survive.

Facilities:

• Wye, junction with Weston Subdivision

• Two fruit warehouses on north side served by a spur track

• Two fruit warehouses on the south side served by 6 cars siding

• Station, daytime agent/operator

Previous Station: Mill Village

Next Station on Weston Subdivision (west): Northville

Next Station on Kingsport Subdivision (east): Ford Crossing

Gallery

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  Locomotive No. 11 "Acadia" at Centreville.

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  Locomotive No. 470 delivers the mail at Centreville.

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  Centreville Station from the east.

• CDCDA Apple Warehouse Thumb.jpg

  Centreville Station surrounded by apple warehouses.

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  Centreville looking east from the station.

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  A double header apple train in Centreville.

References and Footnotes

• Dominion Atlantic Railway Employee Time Table September 25, 1949, Library and Archives Canada, PMP - HE.2804 DC

External Links

Centreville District Community Development Association web site.