Barnstable station was a railway station located on Railroad Avenue in

Barnstable, Massachusetts The Town of Barnstable ( ) is a town in the U.S. state of Massachusetts and the county seat of Barnstable County. Barnstable is the largest community, both in land area and population, on Cape Cod, and is one of thirteen Massachusetts municipaliti ...

. It was constructed in 1889 by the

Old Colony Railroad The Old Colony Railroad (OC) was a major railroad system, mainly covering southeastern Massachusetts and parts of Rhode Island, which operated from 1845 to 1893. Old Colony trains ran from Boston to points such as Plymouth, Fall River, ...

. From the latter years of the 19th century to the 1950s, the station served daily

New Haven Railroad The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad , commonly known as The Consolidated, or simply as the New Haven, was a railroad that operated in the New England region of the United States from 1872 to December 31, 1968. Founded by the merger of ...

trains from Boston, and due for points further east on the Cape. For several decades in the mid-20th century, the station also served the New Haven's day and night versions of its seasonal New York - Hyannis '' Cape Codder'' trains. Lynch, Peter E. (2005). New Haven Railroad passenger trains. St. Paul, Minnesota: MBI Publishing Company. pp. 119-21. . The station was torn down after the New Haven ended passenger rail service to the Cape in 1959.

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Barnstable, Massachusetts Old Colony Railroad Stations on Cape Cod Stations along Old Colony Railroad lines Former railway stations in Massachusetts 1889 establishments in Massachusetts 1959 disestablishments in Massachusetts Railway stations in the United States opened in 1889 Railway stations closed in 1959 {{Massachusetts-railstation-stub