Kentville CVR Station

The Cornwallis Valley Railway (CVR) built a station in Kentville about 1890 when it began operations. Located just behind the main Windsor and Annapolis Railway (WAR) Kentville Station, it provided the small independent railway with passenger and freight services.^[1] It was a long version of the standard Windsor & Annapolis Second Generation station design with a gothic window on the east end. After the WAR purchased the CVR in 1892, the station was removed and likely moved to expand the Kentville Freight Shed, where the station's gothic window may be seen in freight shed photographs after 1910.

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The shed in 1900. Note the small Kentville CVR Station to the right of the main station.
The Kentville Station and Freight Shed, with glimpses of the CVR Station behind, photographed by A.L. Hardy, circa 1905.
Kentville Station with the Kentville Freight Shed and the Kentville Car Shop in distance, circa 1910. Note the new gothic window on the freight shed, likely from the old Kentville CVR Station.