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A test train with passengers aboard was run on May 18, 2013 – the first direct train from Boston to Cape Cod since 1961, and the first via the Old Colony main line since 1959. The CapeFLYER's inaugural journey departed South Station at 5:12 p.m. on Friday, May 24, 2013, with about 200 passengers destined for Buzzards Bay and Hyannis. [ 37 ]
In 2013, the CapeFLYER service began running from South Station to Hyannis on summer weekends – the first direct service from Boston to Cape Cod since 1959. Though officially a Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority service, the CapeFLYER uses MBTA equipment. [30] A 4-mile extension of the Fitchburg Line to Wachusett station opened on September ...
One of the Cape Cod Central Railroad's excursion trains in 2009 A CapeFLYER train crosses the Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge on the Cape Main Line in 2013 A Massachusetts Coastal Railroad freight train operating in 2014. Throughout the 20th century, most of the railroad tracks on the outer Cape were removed, with many being replaced with rail ...
The service is operated by the Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority (CCRTA), in collaboration with the MBTA and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT); it uses standard MBTA commuter equipment. The CapeFLYER is the first regular passenger service to Cape Cod from Boston since the 1960s. [3]
The Cape Cod & Hyannis Railroad was a railroad that provided tourist and seasonal passenger services in Southeastern Massachusetts in the 1980s. Its primary service operated from the Braintree MBTA station to Hyannis on Cape Cod ; branches to Attleboro and Falmouth also operated in some years.
Passenger service declined in the 20th century, with commuter rail service to Boston ending in 1959. From 1984 to 1988, Cape Cod and Hyannis Railroad seasonal commuter and excursion service stopped in Middleborough at the former station, which was demolished in the 1990s. MBTA service on the Middleborough/Lakeville line began in 1997, using ...
It was a stop for Amtrak's Cape Codder which ran from 1986 to 1996 (again, New York to the Cape), and for the Cape Cod and Hyannis Railroad which ran from 1984 to 1988. In 1988, the state refurbished the station building and added an accessible platform in preparation for never-realized commuter rail service.
The station was a stop for daily trains to Boston (e.g., Cranberry, Buttermilk Bay, Sand Dune), as well as a stop for all the New Haven's long distance trains on its Cape Codder New York–Cape Cod service. [5] Regular commuter and mainline service to Wareham lasted until 1959, with brief summer service revivals in the early 1960s. [6]