Pocasset
Early-20th-century postcard of Pocasset station
General information
LocationBarlows Landing Road
Pocasset, Massachusetts
Coordinates41°41′35″N 70°36′54″W / 41.69306°N 70.61500°W / 41.69306; -70.61500
Line(s)Woods Hole Branch
History
Openedc. 1872
Closed1964
Former services
Preceding station New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Following station
Monument Beach
toward Boston
 Boston–​Woods Hole Cataumet
toward Woods Hole
Monument Beach
toward New York
 Cape Codder

Pocasset station was a railroad station in Pocasset, Massachusetts on Cape Cod.[1]

History

The original Pocasset station - ca. 1910

The original Pocasset station was built by the Cape Cod Railroad around 1874.[2] It was taken out of service in 1906 and moved to Cataumet to serve as the freight house there.[3] The Wenaumet station - which was located about a mile north of the original Pocasset station - was renamed Pocasset by the New Haven Railroad. This station burned to the ground on May 14, 1914.[3]

A new station was built at the same location in 1915. It served daily year-round New Haven RR trains to Boston until 1959. Summertime service continued to 1964. The station was also a stop for day and nighttime versions of the NH's Cape Codder service to New York City; these trains were among the trains terminated in 1964.[4][5]

It was later demolished in 1960 after the New Haven Railroad discontinued most passenger service to Cape Cod. Remnants of the station's original foundation and platform are still visible just south of the point where Barlows Landing Road crosses the train tracks.[3]

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.
  2. ↑ "New England News". Boston Globe. April 21, 1874. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. 1 2 3 Eldredge, Andrews T. (2003). Railroads of Cape Cod and the Islands. Arcadia Publishing. pp. 83–84. ISBN 978-0-7385-1157-3.
  4. ↑ Lynch, Peter E. (2005). New Haven Railroad passenger trains. St. Paul, Minnesota: MBI Publishing Company. pp. 119-21. ISBN 978-0-7603-2288-8.
  5. ↑ Karr, Ronald Dale (2010). Lost Railroads of New England. Branch Line Press. p. 166. ISBN 9780942147117.

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