Cataumet station

Cataumet station is a former railroad station located on Post Office Square in Cataumet, Massachusetts.[1]

Cataumet
The former Cataumet station in 2013
General information
LocationPost Office Square
Cataumet, Massachusetts
Coordinates41°39′59.60″N 70°36′47.46″W
Owned byPrivately owned
Line(s)Falmouth Branch
History
Rebuilt1925
Former services
Preceding station Cape Cod and Hyannis Railroad Following station
Buzzards Bay
toward Braintree or Attleboro
 Falmouth Branch
Closed 1988
 Falmouth
Terminus
Preceding station New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Following station
Pocasset
toward Boston
 Boston–​Woods Hole North Falmouth
toward Woods Hole
Pocasset
toward New York
 Cape Codder

History
The original railroad around 1909

The original station opened in 1890, eighteen years after the Woods Hole Branch of the Old Colony Railroad was created.[1] The gingerbread structure was destroyed by a fire in 1925 and subsequently replaced by a small brick structure which still stands today.[1] It was last used as a railroad station in 1988 by the Cape Cod & Hyannis Railroad.

References
  1. Farson, Robert H. (1993). Cape Cod Railroads Including Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. Joan Hollister Farson (First ed.). Yarmouthport, Massachusetts: Cape Cod Historical Publications. p. 145. ISBN 0-9616740-1-6.
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