Platforms Yes Opened 1872 | Rebuilt 1905 | |
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Location Depot Road, North Falmouth, Massachusetts Line(s) Old Colony Railroad (1872–1893)
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (1893–1963) Closed 1964 (burned down in 1969) | ||
The North Falmouth Railroad Station was a station on the Old Colony Railroad on Depot Road in North Falmouth, Massachusetts. Service to the station began in 1872 and ended in 1964, and the station burned down in 1969.
History
The North Falmouth Railroad Station was built in 1872 by the Old Colony Railroad as part of its Woods Hole Branch running from Buzzards Bay to Woods Hole, Massachusetts. In 1893, the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (NH) leased the Old Colony Railroad and took over operations on its lines. In 1905, NH replaced the station with a larger building. When the nearby military training facility of Camp Edwards (now part of Joint Base Cape Cod) was built in 1940–1941, a spur line was built from North Falmouth Railroad Station to Camp Edwards Railroad Station on the base. Scheduled service to North Falmouth ended in 1964 when NH discontinued its passenger service to Cape Cod, and in 1969, the station building burned down.
In 2009, the Woods Hole Branch's right-of-way south of the former North Falmouth Railroad Station was paved as part of the extension of the Shining Sea Bikeway. The former station site is used as the bike path's northern terminus and parking lot.
As of 2017, the Woods Hole Branch north of the former station site and the spur to Joint Base Cape Cod are in active use. The tracks are used by the Massachusetts Coastal Railroad to haul trash from the Upper Cape Regional Transfer Station to the Southeastern Massachusetts Resource Recovery Facility (SEMASS) waste-to-energy and recycling facility.