Buzzards Bay (Amtrak station)

BUZZARDS BAY
Buzzards Bay station in May 2013
Location	Main Street at Academy Drive Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts
Coordinates	41°44′42″N 70°36′57″W / 41.74500°N 70.61583°W / 41.74500; -70.61583Coordinates: 41°44′42″N 70°36′57″W / 41.74500°N 70.61583°W / 41.74500; -70.61583
Owned by	MassDOT
Line(s)	Cape Main Line
Platforms	1 side platform
Construction
Parking	Yes
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	1848
Rebuilt	1912
Services
Preceding station   MBTA   Following station Wareham toward South Station CapeFLYER Hyannis Terminus Cape Cod Central Railroad Terminus Cape Cod Central Railroad Sandwich toward Hyannis   Former services   Amtrak Wareham toward New York City Cape Codder Sandwich toward Hyannis Cape Cod and Hyannis Railroad Wareham toward Braintree or Attleboro Main line Closed 1988 Sandwich toward Hyannis Falmouth Branch Closed 1988 Cataumet toward Falmouth

Buzzards Bay is a train station located on Main Street in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. The site also contains an interlocking tower. The Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge is adjacent.

Buzzards Bay is an intermediate stop on the Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority's CapeFLYER summer weekend passenger service. It is also the westernmost stop of the Cape Cod Central Railroad. Extension of MBTA Commuter Rail service on the Middleborough/Lakeville Line to the station has been proposed on several occasions, but never enacted.

Originally known as Cohasset Narrows, the station was built as part of the Cape Cod Branch Railroad in 1848. Its name was changed to Buzzards Bay in 1879 by the Old Colony Railroad who had acquired the line in 1872 with a merger of the Cape Cod Railroad.

The present station building was constructed by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in 1912. Prior to the opening of the Cape Cod Canal in 1916, Buzzards Bay was located on what was then the north bank of the Monument River at a junction of the main railroad line between Middleborough and Cape Cod and the branch to Woods Hole. The Woods Hole Branch crossed the river slightly west of what is now the Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge, while the Cape Cod main line continued along the north side of the river before crossing where the river narrowed at Bourne. The Monument River was converted into the Cape Cod Canal, which opened in 1916. The Cape Cod Main Line and junction were moved to the south side of the canal, which was later widened in the 1930s.