The Intercolonial Railway ( ICR ) , which had taken over the NSR , expropriated waterfront land at Rockingham Station from the Sisters of Charity during the early 1900s to widen its trackage leading to Fairview . Immediately prior to the Halifax Explosion , telegraph operator Vince Coleman ( train dispatcher ) managed to warn an incoming passenger train to hold at Rockingham Station 's passenger station ( the last ICR station stop before Richmond terminal ) , ultimately saving countless lives . The new rock cut being built for the railway through south end Halifax was finished in 1918 under the newly created Canadian National Railways ( CNR ) , with some of the blasted rock being used as infill to create the Halifax Ocean Terminals in the south end of the city , as well as infill of Bedford Basin off Rockingham Station to create what is now the Rockingham Railway Yard
Halifax Explosion
Halifax Explosion
Rockingham, Nova Scotia