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Buzzards Bay Railroad Station

BUZZARDS BAY
Buzzards Bay station HDR.jpg
Location Main Street, Buzzards Bay
Coordinates 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 Yes
Construction
Parking Yes
Disabled access Yes
History
Opened 1848
Rebuilt 1912
Services
Preceding station   MBTA.svg MBTA   Following station
CapeFLYER
Terminus
Cape Cod Central Railroad
Terminus Cape Cod Central Railroad
toward Hyannis
  Former services  
Cape Cod and Hyannis Railroad
toward Braintree or Attleboro
Main line
Closed 1988
toward Hyannis
Falmouth Branch
Closed 1988
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. A trial extension of MBTA Commuter Rail service on the Middleborough/Lakeville Line is proposed to begin in 2016 or 2017.

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.


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