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Yarmouth station of Yarmouth, Maine, is located on the east side of the railroad tracks, just south of Maine State Route 115, the town's Main Street.The railroad station was built in 1906 by the Grand Trunk Railroad, and is a well-preserved example of an early 20th-century passenger rail depot, an increasingly rare sight in the state.
The station building in the 19th century. Yarmouth Junction station was a passenger rail station in Yarmouth, Maine, United States.It stood to the west of East Elm Street at Depot Road, at the junction of the former Grand Trunk Railway (now the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad) and the Maine Central Railroad (now Guilford Rail System's Kennebec & Portland), around 0.9 miles (1.4 km) north of ...
The two railroads passing through the town are Guilford Rail System's Kennebec & Portland (which replaced Maine Central Railroad in 1849) and the now-disused St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad (replaced Grand Trunk Railway in 1848). A train wreck occurred on the morning of February 15, 1912, near Dunn's Corner (the North Road and Route 9 ...
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Boston and Maine Railroad: Portland and Rumford Falls Railroad: MEC: 1907 1946 Maine Central Railroad: Portland and Rumford Falls Railway: MEC: 1890 1946 Maine Central Railroad: Portland and Yarmouth Electric Railway: 1898 1933 Portland, Saco and Portsmouth Railroad: B&M: 1837 1900 Boston and Maine Railroad: Portland Terminal Company: PTM MEC: 1911
Trolley cars of the Portland and Yarmouth Electric Railway used to run, every fifteen minutes, from Portland, through Falmouth Foreside, up and down Pleasant Street and onto Main Street between 1898 and 1933, [5] [6] when the advent of the automobile made rail travel a less convenient option. A shed for passengers awaiting the trolley cars ...
Yarmouth's marina in 2022, looking south. Also known as Falls Village or The Falls, Lower Falls (named for the nearby First Falls) was the location of several mills from the 17th century onward, while—on the southern side of today's East Main Street Bridge—was Yarmouth's harbor, where many hundreds of ships were built and launched in the century between 1790 and 1890.