Chatham station (Massachusetts)

Chatham station is a former railroad station located on Depot Road in Chatham, Massachusetts which houses a museum. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1978,[3] and it is now home to the Chatham Railroad Museum.

This article is about the former station in Massachusetts. For other uses, see Chatham railway station.
Chatham
General information
Location153 Depot Road, Chatham, Massachusetts
Coordinates41°41′09″N 69°57′42″W
Owned byTown of Chatham, Massachusetts[1]
Line(s)Chatham Branch
Platforms1 side platform
History
Opened1887
Closed1937[2]
Rebuilt1960 (as a museum)[2]
Former services
Preceding station New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Following station
West Chatham
toward Harwich
 Chatham Branch Terminus
Chatham Railroad Depot
Location153 Depot Road
Chatham, Massachusetts
ArchitectDavid Howes[3]
Architectural styleQueen Anne, Stick, Eastlake
NRHP reference No.78000422
Added to NRHP1978[3]

The Chatham Railroad Museum features many railroad artifacts, including the New York Central model locomotives used at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Other displays include original and operating Western Union telegraph equipment, lanterns, badges, signs, tools, timetables, menus and passes, promotional literature, original paintings and prints, calendars, and a restored 1910 caboose.

Service to Chatham was on a line that spurred at Harwich from the mainline to Provincetown.

The station around 1910

Service ended to the station in the 1930s. There is no connected railroad track running there for train service. The former New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad line ends in South Dennis and no longer runs to Chatham. The nearest train service is the seasonal CapeFlyer service at the Hyannis Transportation Center in Hyannis.

Plans were made in the first years of the 21st Century to extend the Cape Cod Rail Trail into Chatham and west of Dennis and into Barnstable.


See also

References
  1. "Chatham, MA - Chatham Railroad Museum". Archived from the original on 2010-10-16. Retrieved 2010-10-11.
  2. "Chatham Chamber of Commerce Museums in Chatham, Cape Cod". Retrieved 2010-10-11.
  3. Barnstable County Listings on the National Register of Historic Places (Building # #78000422)

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