The Middleton Railway Museum is in the original Dominion Atlantic Railway Station, which opened in January 1917. The DAR completed the new station just seven months after a fire destroyed the three-story 1890 station. After the last passenger run in January 1990, the Canadian Pacific Railway abandoned the station and rail line. The station and surrounding land passed to the Province of Nova Scotia and then, in February 2021, to the Middleton Railway Society.

The Society, with assistance from CN and the Province of Nova Scotia, moved CNR 4-6-0 1274 to the station in December 2020. Built in Montreal in 1905, it is the fourth oldest surviving CN steam locomotive. Volunteers are restoring its cab and tender to their 1956 appearance. Visitors may view 1274 and our 1948 boxcar at any time. In February 2023, the Nova Scotia Museum of Industry donated former CNR 0-6-0 7260. In 1906, the Canadian Locomotive Company in Kingston, Ontario, built the 104-ton steamer, the oldest surviving example of this company's craftsmanship. It worked for many years in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia and assembled trains that would have travelled to Middleton.  

Also, in February 2023, the Museum acquired two industrial switching locomotives from the Museum of Industry. A Vulcan diesel locomotive built in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, 1928 served the Mersey Paper Company in Brooklyn, Nova Scotia. A Plymouth gasoline switcher built in Ohio in 1943 served owners in Alberta and New Brunswick before coming to the Wallace Quarry, where it ran until 1991.

In September 2024, Andrew Blackburn of Truro donated CNR caboose 78961, which he and his father Leslie had preserved in Bible Hill, Nova Scotia, since 1980. Converted from a box car in London, Ontario, in 1951, Eastern Car Company in Trenton, Nova Scotia, had built the car for the Canadian Government Railway in 1918. It will be a featured exhibit at the Museum.  

On June 1, 2025, the Museum will open a locally themed HO model railway in the freight shed portion of the station. It will also open the historic 1956-era waiting room and operator's office. 2025 will be our second operating season. 

Visitors welcome!