Ocean City 34th Street Station
The Ocean City 34th Street Station was located in Ocean City, Cape May County, New Jersey, 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 around 1885 by the Ocean City Railroad, which was acquired by the Atlantic City Railroad in 1901, and later by the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines. Trains last served the station in August 1981, when service was cancelled due to poor track conditions and limited funding from the New Jersey Department of Transportation.
The station was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 22, 1984, for its significance in architecture and transportation. It was subsequently damaged beyond repair when a truck backed into it, and thus demolished.
See also
- Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource (New Jersey)
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Cape May County, New Jersey
- Ocean City Tenth Street Station
References
- ^ "Stations". seashorelines.org. Cape May Seashore Lines. Archived from the original on February 25, 2021. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
- ^ "National Register Information System – (#84002613)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places – Cape May County" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection – Historic Preservation Office. March 25, 2024. p. 8.
Demolished
- ^ Schwieterman, Joseph P. (2001). When the Railroad Leaves Town: American Communities in the Age of Rail Line Abandonment, Eastern United States. Kirksville, Missouri: Truman State University Press. pp. 193–197. ISBN 978-0-943549-97-2.
- ^ Meyer, Richard (July 1981). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Ocean City 34th Street Station". National Park Service. With accompanying photo
External links
Media related to Ocean City 34th Street Station at Wikimedia Commons