Cape May City Rail Terminal Explained

Style:	Reading Company
Cape May
Type:	Suspended CMSL excursion station
Coordinates:	38.9352°N -74.9226°W
Other:	MAC Trolly
Tracks:	3
Accessible:	Yes
Other Services Header:	Suspended services
Other Services2 Header:	Former services

The Cape May City Rail Terminal is a passenger train station in Cape May, New Jersey. The station offered train service from 1863 through 1981.

The station area last had regional passenger train service by the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines in the mid-1960s. Final service into Camden, New Jersey (across the Delaware River from Philadelphia) ended in January 1966, while service to Lindenwold station ended in October 1981.^[1]

Train service resumed in 1999, but stopped in 2005 due to structural concerns, but resumed again in 2010.^[2] The terminal is located at the intersection of Lafayette and Elmira Streets.^[3] Service was suspended after 2012 following extensive vandalism of the rail line.^[4] In 2015 the City of Cape May announced a proposal for parking space expansion that would pave over the tracks.^[5]

Current service

• Cape May Seashore Lines^[6]

Notes and References

1. http://www.capemayseashorelines.org/cmsl_about.php About
2. Web site: Tischler. Susan. All Aboard! The train is now leaving the station. CapeMay.com. 25 July 2015. 1 August 2003.
3. Web site: Degener. Richard. Seashore Line resumes train service to Cape May as tourist attraction. Press of Atlantic City. 25 July 2015. 18 August 2010.
4. News: 3 arrested in thefts of metal pieces used to fasten railroad track to ties . Richard . Degener . Press of Atlantic City . 2012-03-21. 28 June 2020.
5. News: Cape May wants to turn unused train tracks into parking lot . Richard . Degener . Press of Atlantic City . 5 August 2015. 30 June 2020.
6. Web site: Rio Grande–Cape May Line . Cape May Seashore Line . 25 July 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150723010905/http://www.capemayseashorelines.org/rcs_s-l.php . 23 July 2015 .