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Wilmot

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Wilmot, Nova Scotia

Subdivision Kentville, Mile 27.1

Facilities & Features

Commerce & Industry

Description & History

Wilmot was the scene of one of the worst wrecks on the DAR. On January 14, 1894, a Windsor & Annapolis Railway snowplow extra derailed one mile east of Wilmot Station. The locomotive fell through the bridge at Gibbon's Brook killing both the engineer and fireman.[1]

Operations & Orders

Gallery

  • Fatal snowplow wreck at Wilmot, Jan. 15, 1895 with the wreckage of W&AR locomotive No. 7 and wedge snowplow.

  • Oregon Northwestern boxcar for England's Furniture in Wilmot.

  • Wilmot to Kingston

References & Footnotes

  1. ↑ Special Dispatch to the Halifax Herald. "Crashed Though A Bridge Fatal Accident on The W.& A. Railway" The Halifax Herald 1894 January 15

References


External Links

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