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[ 0 => '{{Infobox rail|', 1 => 'railroad_name=Nova Scotia Railway|', 2 => 'logo_size=|', 3 => 'old_gauge=|', 4 => 'logo_filename=|', 5 => 'locale=central [[Nova Scotia]]|', 6 => 'start_year=1853|', 7 => 'end_year=1872|', 8 => 'successor_line = [[Intercolonial Railway]] |', 9 => 'gauge= {{RailGauge|5ft6in}} |', 10 => 'hq_city=[[Halifax (former city)|Halifax, Nova Scotia]]|', 11 => 'marks=', 12 => '}}', 13 => false, 14 => 'The '''Nova Scotia Railway''' is a historic [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Rail transport|railway]]. It was composed of two lines, one connecting [[Richmond, Nova Scotia|Richmond]] (immediately north of [[Halifax (former city)|Halifax]]) with [[Windsor, Nova Scotia|Windsor]], the other connecting Richmond with [[Pictou]] via [[Truro, Nova Scotia|Truro]].', 15 => false, 16 => 'The railway was incorporated March 31, 1853 and received a charter to build railway lines from Halifax to Pictou by way of Truro, as well as from Halifax to [[Victoria Beach, Nova Scotia]] on the [[Annapolis Basin]] opposite [[Digby, Nova Scotia|Digby]] by way of Windsor. The company also received a charter to build from Truro to the border with [[New Brunswick]]. 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 intercolonial railway talks and several fruitless private proposals. ', 17 => '[[Image:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|thumb|left|Sandford Fleming supervised construction of the Eastern Line of the NSR in 1867.]]', 18 => 'The railway line to Windsor (known as the Windsor Branch) was opened in June 1858 and the line to Truro (known as the Eastern Line) was opened in December 1858. No further work was undertaken on the line to Victoria Beach beyond Windsor but the Eastern Line to Pictou Landing was completed by June 1867, under the supervision of [[Sandford Fleming|Sir Sandford Fleming]]. The construction of the Nova Scotia Railway by the colonial government was partly encouraged by the construction failures and ongoing delays in building the [[Shubenacadie Canal]] The success of the railway came at the expense of the canal which opened in 1861, but soon fell into disrepair from lack of use (and because the rail bridges over the canal were too low for the steamers on the canal).', 19 => false, 20 => 'One noteworthy early feature of operations on the Nova Scotia Railway was the first known case of [[intermodal freight transport|intermodal]] operations involving the "piggyback" transport of road vehicles on railway cars. Farmers in the Windsor area were able to drive their teams of horses and loaded wagons onto railway cars and be transported into Halifax to sell their loads, returning to Windsor the same day.', 21 => false, 22 => 'On July 1, 1867, ownership of the NSR was passed from the [[Government of Nova Scotia]] to the [[Government of Canada]].', 23 => false, 24 => '[[File:Nova Scotia Railway, Pictou.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Engine No. 6, ''Pictou'']]', 25 => 'The Windsor Branch was leased to the [[Windsor and Annapolis Railway]] in 1871. The W&A became part of the [[Dominion Atlantic Railway]] or DAR in 1894 and the DAR itself was purchased by the [[Canadian Pacific Railway]] or CPR in 1912, although it was operated as a separate entity. When the DAR was sold by CPR in 1994, the Windsor Branch came under the control of the shortline [[Windsor and Hantsport Railway]].', 26 => false, 27 => 'The Government of Canada dissolved the NSR in 1872 when it became part of the [[Intercolonial Railway]]. The ICR in turn was controlled by [[Canadian Government Railways]] from 1915-1918 and was merged into the [[Canadian National Railways]] or CNR in 1918. The Halifax to Truro line remains part of CN, however the rest of the Eastern Line from Truro to Pictou was sold by CN in 1993 to the [[Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway]] as part of CN's sale of the entire Truro to [[Sydney, Nova Scotia|Sydney]] line.', 28 => false, 29 => '==External links==', 30 => '*[http://ns1758.ca/rail/railways.html History of Railway Companies in Nova Scotia]', 31 => '*[http://ns1758.ca/rail/railway16.html Nova Scotia Railway, Pictou Extension 1866]', 32 => '*[http://dardpi.ca/wiki Dominion Atlantic Railway Digital Preservation Initiative - Wiki]', 33 => false, 34 => '==References==', 35 => '* Iron Roads of Nova Scotia, David E. Stephens, Lancelot Press, Windsor NS', 36 => false, 37 => '{{Canada class 2}}', 38 => false, 39 => '{{DEFAULTSORT:Nova Scotia Railway}}', 40 => '[[Category:Crown corporations of Nova Scotia|Nova Scotia Railway]]', 41 => '[[Category:Former Crown corporations of Canada|Nova Scotia Railway]]', 42 => '[[Category:Defunct Nova Scotia railways]]', 43 => '[[Category:1853 establishments in Nova Scotia]]', 44 => '[[Category:1872 disestablishments]]', 45 => '[[Category:1853 establishments in Canada]]' ]