page_title: Tatamagouche
section_title: Railroad
hierarchical_section_title: Tatamagouche / Railroad
caption_attribution_description: English: George Douglas, Blacksmith, Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia.
context_page_description: Tatamagouche is a village in Colchester County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  Tatamagouche is situated on the Northumberland Strait 50 kilometres north of Truro and 50 kilometres west of Pictou. The village is located along the south side of Tatamagouche Bay at the mouths of the French and Waugh Rivers. Tatamagouche derives its name from the native Mi'kmaq term Takǔmegoochk, translated as "Meeting of the waters".
context_section_description: The Intercolonial Railway constructed its "Short Line" from Oxford Junction to Stellarton through Tatamagouche in 1887.  The ICR commissioned the Rhodes Curry Company of Amherst to build a passenger station in the village immediately east of the creamery.  The ICR was merged into the Canadian National Railways in 1918 and CN operated this line as part of its "Oxford Subdivision", servicing mainly agricultural communities, as well as the salt mines at Malagash and Pugwash as well as a quarry in Wallace.  Passenger service through Tatamagouche was discontinued in the 1960s and the station was used as an office for railway employees handling freight until 1972 when it was closed and sold in 1976.  CN discontinued freight service on the line in 1986 when the Oxford Sub was abandoned; the rails were removed in 1989.
  Today the passenger station is a bed and breakfast with restored historic rail cars located on the property.  The rail line through the village is a recreational trail, designated as part of the Trans Canada Trail and the point where the Nova Scotia portion of the trail branches south to Truro, Halifax and southwestern Nova Scotia, making Tatamagouche a good starting point for a short waterfront walk or a major biking expedition.
caption: George Douglas, blacksmith (1900)
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