Centreville

Centreville, Nova Scotia

Subdivision Kingsport, Mile 4.8
Subdivision Weston, Mile 0

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. 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:

Wye, junction with Weston Subdivision

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.
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Centreville Station surrounded by apple warehouses.
Centreville looking east from the station.
Station 1940's
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Centreville Station with passengers and train crew, 1959.
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