Hantsport Station

Wood Station c. 1870 - 1943

Hantsport did not have a station when the Windsor and Annapolis Railway first began operations through the town in 1869^[1] The first Hantsport station was a standard Windsor and Annapolis passenger and freight station built circa 1870.

Description:^[2]

Station Building, 40' x 22'
Station Platform, 200' x 14'
Water Tank (pump), 15' x 14'

The first station was destroyed in a fire in 1943.^[3]

Gallery

Hantsport Station with crowds gathered for a VIP train showing the Hantsport Water Tower and the Hantsport Fruit Basket Company, possibly during the 1901 royal visit.
Hantsport viewed looking east from boxcar on the Hantsport team track with the Hantsport Station, the G.H. Yeaton Warehouse and the Sandford apple warehouse, circa 1895.
The first Hantsport Station, photographed by CPR photographer Joseph Heckman, circa October 1910.

Brick Station 1944 - Present

It was replaced by a Tudor revival station, similar to the Bridgetown Station, based on the standard CPR Station Design No. 16.^[4] The new station was completed in 1944 making it one of the last stations built by the DAR. It is protected by both federal and provincial heritage laws, designated a historic railway station by the federal government in 1992^[5], which means it cannot be demolished or altered without federal alteration^[6] and was further designated as a provincial heritage building in 1995.^[7]

Gallery

Extra 9058, the promotion tour for RDC No. 9058 at the Hantsport Station, August 1956.
Hantsport Station east end, with the Sandford apple warehouse, July 1959.
Hantsport Station and the Hantsport Railyard with the Sandford apple warehouse and the United Fruit Companies Warehouse, July 1959.
Hantsport Station, trackside, July 1959.
Hantsport Station with the Sandford apple warehouse and United Fruit Companies warehouse, August 1961.
Hantsport Station and CPR Boxcar 52477, circa late 1960s.
Hantsport depot July 18, 1975.
Hantsport Station rear, 1979.
RDCs VIA 6136, VIA 6143 and VIA 6108 at the Hantsport Station with Annapolis Valley Canners warehouse behind, July 21, 1984.
Hantsport Station with MOW equipment and the Annapolis Valley Canners/Hantsport Fruit Company warehouse in background, Feb. 9, 1999.
Hantsport Station with the G.H. Yeaton Warehouse behind, July 15th, 2009.
Hantsport Station unknown date.
Hantsport Station on August 30, 2011.
Hantsport Station with the yard to the right on August 30, 2011.
Hantsport Station with W&H locomotives.