Harwich Center | |||||||||||
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 1916 postcard of Harwich Center station | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | Harwich, Massachusetts | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°41′14.8″N 70°04′28.9″W / 41.687444°N 70.074694°W | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Chatham Branch | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 1887[1] | ||||||||||
| Former services | |||||||||||
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Harwich Center station was a train station located in Harwich, Massachusetts. Built in 1887, it was a small 1+1⁄2-story wooden structure with a pointed roof.[2]
The Chatham Railroad opened between Harwich and Chatham on November 21, 1887.[3][4] It was immediately leased by the Old Colony Railroad, which controlled all rail lines on Cape Cod, as its Chatham Branch.[5][6] The Old Colony was leased by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in 1893.[5]
Passenger service on the Chatham Branch ended in 1931; it was the first line on Cape Cod to lose service.[5][7] Freight service on the line continued until it was abandoned in 1937, though Harwich Center station was no longer in use by 1937.[8][9] The stations were sold to private individuals; all but Chatham were eventually demolished.[10]
References
- ^ 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. 105. ISBN 0-9616740-1-6.
- ^ Eldredge, Andrews T. (2003). Railroads of Cape Cod and the Islands. Arcadia Publishing. p. 99. ISBN 978-0-7385-1157-3.
- ^ "Opening Chatham's New Railroad". The Boston Globe. November 16, 1887. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Chatham's New Railroad Opened". The Boston Globe. November 21, 1887. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c Karr, Ronald Dale (2017). The Rail Lines of Southern New England (2 ed.). Branch Line Press. pp. 408–414. ISBN 9780942147124.
- ^ Twenty-Fourth Annual Report of the Old Colony Railroad Co. to the Stockholders. Old Colony Railroad Company. November 1887. p. 7.
- ^ "Demand Gasoline Car Be Retained". The Boston Globe. July 29, 1930. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "To Abandon RR Line Harwich to Chatham". The Boston Globe. May 22, 1937. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "7-Mile Cape Railroad With Three Stations Goes on Market as Last Train Puffs Away". The Boston Globe. July 8, 1937. p. 28 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Roy, John H. Jr. (2007). A Field Guide to Southern New England Railroad Depots and Freight Houses. Branch Line Press. p. 117. ISBN 9780942147087.
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