Ocean City 34th Street Station was located in Ocean City,

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, United States. The station — a small wooden shelter with bench seating for a few passengers, located just south of 34th Street next to a rail line running down the middle of Haven Avenue — was built in 1885 by the Ocean City Railroad, which was acquired by the

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in 1901, and later by the

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. Trains last served the station in August 1981, when service was cancelled due to poor track conditions and limited funding from the

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. The station was added to the

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on June 22, 1984.New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places, Cape May County
p. 6 It was subsequently damaged beyond repair when a truck backed into it, and thus demolished.

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