Train Station Inn

Top choice in Nova Scotia


Top prize for Nova Scotia's quirkiest accommodations has to go to this train-spotters' paradise, where several railway cabooses have been converted into cozy accommodations, decorated with period posters, toy trains and locomotive books. There's also a railway dining car for dinner.

The dreamer behind the inn, James LeFresne, grew up across the tracks and saved the train station from demolition when he was just 18.


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