Wilmot

Wilmot, Nova Scotia

Subdivision Kentville, Mile 27.1

• Next Station East: Kingston
• Next Station West: Middleton

Facilities & Features

• Wilmot Station

Commerce & Industry

• England's Furniture
• Frenchies
• Torbrook Mines Spur

Description & History

Wilmot was the junction for a three mile spur to Torbrook Mines which crossed the Annapolis River and ran south to the iron mines in Torbrook. The spur was completed in the fall of 1891 by the Torbrook Iron Company to serve three of the iron pits at Torbrook. The ore was shipped on the DAR to ironworks at Londonderry in Colchester County. Ore shipments from the spur were however short-lived and ceased about 1907.

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.

Gallery

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

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  Oregon Northwestern boxcar for England's Furniture in Wilmot.

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  Wilmot to Kingston

• Torbrookspursmap.jpg

  Annotated map detail showing the HSW and DAR Torbrook Mines Spurs, 1960

References & Footnotes

• Alexander MacNab, Windsor and Annapolis Railway, Report of Alexander MacNab Nov 1, 1873
• 1969 Memorandum of General Information