Windsor station in

Windsor, Nova Scotia Windsor is a community located in Hants County, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is a service centre for the western part of the county and is situated on Highway 101. The community has a history dating back to its use by the Mi'kmaq Nation for sev ...

, Canada, is owned by the

Windsor and Hantsport Railway The Windsor and Hantsport Railway was a railway line in Nova Scotia between Windsor Junction (north of Bedford) and New Minas with a spur at Windsor which runs several miles east, serving two gypsum quarries located at Wentworth Creek and Mantua ...

. The railway no longer operates freight or passenger trains, but maintains one employee in the building. The prefabricated metal structure replaced an earlier station building when the railway line's route through Windsor was changed in the 1970s.

History

Windsor's first station was a large covered platform station built by the

Nova Scotia Railway The Nova Scotia Railway is a historic Canadian railway. It was composed of two lines, one connecting Richmond (immediately north of Halifax) with Windsor, the other connecting Richmond with Pictou Landing via Truro. The railway was incorpora ...

in 1858. It was replaced by a wooden gambrel roof station constructed by the

Intercolonial Railway The Intercolonial Railway of Canada , also referred to as the Intercolonial Railway (ICR), was a historic Canadian railway that operated from 1872 to 1918, when it became part of Canadian National Railways. As the railway was also completely ow ...

in 1881. A brick station was constructed in 1905 and the wooden station was relegated to freight duties. The brick station was demolished in 1970 and replaced by the current structure."Windsor Station", ''Dominion Atlantic Railway Digital Preservation Initiative
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References

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Windsor and Hantsport Railway
* Railway stations in Nova Scotia {{NovaScotia-transport-stub