Yarmouth station (Massachusetts)

The former Yarmouth Railroad Station was located on Railroad Avenue in Yarmouth, Massachusetts on Cape Cod. The last station stood on land that is today occupied by a commercial warehouse at 91 Willow Street, Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts.

Yarmouth
ca. 1931
Locationoff Railroad Avenue,
Yarmouth, Mass.
Coordinates41°41′55″N 70°15′30″W
Line(s)Cape Cod Main Line, Hyannis Secondary
History
Opened1854
Rebuiltin 1878 and in 1942,
razed, ca. 1975

The original station

The original station was built in the village of Yarmouth Port when the Cape Cod Railroad extended its line from Sandwich to Hyannis in 1854. This station burned to the ground in a spectacular fire on November 17, 1878.[1]

The second station

The Old Colony Railroad built a new station in the Town of Yarmouth in 1878 at the junction where the Hyannis branch turns to the south towards Hyannis and the former main line continued east to Provincetown. This station, shown in the image within this entry, burned down in 1941.[2]

The last station
Yarmouth station in 1974

In 1941 the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad built a new brick station in the same location as the previous station.[2] It served the Day Cape Codder, Night Cape Codder and Neptune.

This station was torn down around 1975 to make room for the Christmas Tree Shops' first warehouse.[3]

See also
  • List of Stations of the Old Colony Railroad on Cape Cod

References
  1. Farson, Robert H. (1993). Cape Cod Railroads including Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. Cape Cod Historical Publications. p. 155. ISBN 0-9616740-1-6.
  2. Farson (1993), p. 155.
  3. Pegnato, Fred (January 1, 2010). "Yarmouth, Mass. in the Penn Central Days". Retrieved 1 April 2013.

Further reading
  • Sokolosky, William C. (1975). A history of railroads in Yarmouth, Massachusetts. Yarmouth Port, Mass.: Historical Society of Old Yarmouth. OCLC 2072448.

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