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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:47, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

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Kensington Railway Station

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Kensington Railway Station
Kensington Railway Station
  • ... that the architecturally outstanding Kensington Railway Station (pictured), now a National Historic Site of Canada, is referred to as a "boulder station" because of its fieldstone walls? Prince Edward Island's Boulder Stations: "Of the 120 railway stations built on the island only two were outstanding architecturally. These 'boulder stations' were built in 1904-1905 as replacements for earlier wooden ones. Kinsington and Alberton are the two towns graced by these buildings"
    • ALT1:... that upon completion of Kensington Railway Station (pictured) in Prince Edward Island, the station it replaced was moved and used as the station master's residence? Kensington Railway Station ("Why is this place important?" tab): "This building was relocated in 1906 to Imperial Street to serve as a residence for the station master."
    • ALT2:... after service to Kensington Railway Station (pictured) ended in 1969, it has served as a library, tourist information centre, box office, storage site, and restaurant?Kensington Railway Station ("Why is this place important?" tab): "In recent years, the station has been used as a library, tourist information site, box office for the Indian River Festival and to house a collection of railway memorabilia of the PEI Railway Heritage Association. Today the station is home to the Island Stone Pub."

Moved to mainspace by Mindmatrix (talk). Self-nominated at 14:43, 6 February 2017 (UTC).

  • Article
    • 1. New – Yes.
    • 2. Long enough – Yes.
    • 3. Within policy – Yes.
  • Hook
    • 1. Format – Yes.
    • 2. Content - Hook is interesting, factual and neutral.
  • Other
    • QPQ – Yes.
    • Image – Image is fair use, used in article and shows up well at 100px.
  • Overall: DYK is good to go.--TriiipleThreat (talk) 15:22, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
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