Cataumet | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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![]() The former Cataumet station in 2013 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
General information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | Post Office Square Cataumet, Massachusetts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 41°39′59.60″N70°36′47.46″W / 41.6665556°N 70.6131833°W | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Owned by | Privately owned | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Line(s) | Falmouth Branch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Opened | 1870s | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rebuilt | 1883, 1925 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Former services | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cataumet station is a former railroad station located on Post Office Square in Cataumet, Massachusetts. [1]
The Woods Hole Branch of the Old Colony Railroad opened in 1872. A station was open at Cataumet by 1879. [2] [3] [4] [5] A new station building was constructed in 1883. [6] The gingerbread-style 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.