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The railway was a key project of the visionary Nova Scotian leader Joseph Howe who felt a government built railway led by Nova Scotia was necessary after the failure of the Intercolonial Railway talks and several fruitless private proposals. Sandford Fleming supervised construction of the Eastern Line of the NSR in 1867.
The Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway (reporting mark CBNS) is a short line railway that operates in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.CBNS operates (245 miles or 394 kilometres) of main line and associated spurs between Truro in the central part of the province to Point Tupper on Cape Breton Island.
The DAR's large 2-storey station housing the railway's headquarters was the oldest station in Nova Scotia and one of the oldest wood railway stations in Canada was demolished in 1990. In May 2007, the town of Kentville revealed plans to demolish the town's last surviving railway structure, the ten-stall roundhouse.
The Inverness and Richmond Railway was a railway that operated on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia from 1901 to the 1980s. It is now a rail trail for snowmobiles , all-terrain vehicles , and human-powered transport called the Celtic Shores Coastal Trail.
The Halifax and South Western Railway (reporting mark H&SW) [1] was a historic Canadian railway operating in the province of Nova Scotia.. The legal name of this railway was the Halifax & South Western Railway, as is defined in various Acts of the Nova Scotia Legislature, such as 1902 c.1, Act respecting the Halifax & South Western Railway Co..
The Windsor and Hantsport Railway (reporting mark WHRC) was a 56-mile (90.1 km) 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. It suspended operations in 2011.
In Nova Scotia, the CAR abandoned the lines west of Kentville to Yarmouth following cancellation of Via Rail services in January 1990. By 1993, traffic had declined on the CAR's Saint John-Montreal route to fewer than 25,000 carloads per year (including Via Rail's Atlantic). This amount of traffic was unsustainable for the route, forcing CP ...
Sydney was a railway station in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. [1] [2] The building was originally owned by Canadian National Railway and later used by Via Rail Canada until the discontinuance of passenger train service to Sydney in 1990. The property was later owned by a numbered company, 3046975 Nova Scotia Ltd., which is controlled by Patrick ...