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6 unusual facts about Old Colony Railroad


Fall River, Warren and Providence Railroad

The Old Colony Railroad operated the line from 1875 until 1892 when it bought it outright.

Monument Beach Train Station

The station was originally built in 1875, three years after the Woods Hole branch of the Old Colony Railroad opened.

North Truro Train Station

North Truro (a.k.a. Pond Village) first saw train service in 1873, when the Old Colony Railroad extended the tracks from Wellfleet, Massachusetts to Provincetown, with a depot probably built the same year.

Old Colony Lines

Old Colony Railroad, New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad subsidiary

Old Colony Railroad

In the spring of 1854, construction continued, with the railroad reaching Barnstable village May 8, Yarmouth Port May 19, and finally Hyannis on July 8, 1854.

Yarmouth Train Station

The Old Colony Railroad built a new station in the Town of Yarmouth in 1878 at the junction where the Hyannis branch turns to the south towards Hyannis and the former main line continued east to Provincetown.



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