Monument Beach station

Monument Beach station is a former train station located in Monument Beach, Massachusetts.[1]

Monument Beach
The former station in June 2012
General information
LocationShore Road, Monument Beach, Massachusetts
Coordinates41°43′09″N 70°36′52″W
Owned byPrivate party
Line(s)Falmouth Branch
Platforms1 side platform
History
Opened1875
Closed1950s
Former services
Preceding station New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Following station
Gray Gables
toward Boston
 Boston–​Woods Hole Pocasset
toward Woods Hole
Buzzards Bay
toward New York
 Cape Codder

History
The 3rd Station - c. 1910s

The station was originally built in 1875, three years after the Woods Hole branch of the Old Colony Railroad opened.[1] The small depot was replaced by a larger structure in 1880.[2][1] This building was destroyed in 1906, when the village burned down.[1] It was then replaced by the current structure, a building which still has its protective overhangs over the platforms,[1] despite the fact that it is now a private residence.

References
  1. 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. 340. ISBN 0-9616740-1-6.
  2. Seventeenth Annual Report of the Old Colony Railroad Co. to the Stockholders. Old Colony Railroad Company. November 1880. p. 6.

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