Passenger Trains > Downeaster to stop in Kennebunk

Downeaster train service adds stop in Kennebunk
Portland Press Herald
by Tom Bell

> Amtrak will begin stopping in Kennebunk next summer or in 2016,
> restoring passenger train service to the town for the first time in
> half a century.
>
> The train will stop at the old Boston & Maine Railroad station on
> Depot Street. Located just south of downtown, it hadn’t been used as
> a train station since B&M stopped running between Boston and Portland
> on Jan. 3, 1965.

> “We are hoping ... to impress on people that Kennebunk is more than
> just a bump in the road,” said town official Blake Baldwin. Part of
> the old Boston & Maine Railroad station on Depot Street will serve as
> the Downeaster train stop in Kennebunk. “We are hoping ... to impress
> on people that Kennebunk is more than just a bump in the road,” said
> town official Blake Baldwin. Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer Related
>
> The rail authority that operates the Downeaster service has agreed to
> add the new seasonal stop to its schedule. Like the stop at Old
> Orchard Beach, it will be used from April through October.
>
> Town officials are negotiating with the station’s current owner to
> lease a 100-square-foot area of the building, now used as an office.
> The town also plans to purchase a parcel across the street from the
> station for an expanded parking area, and to secure land from an
> adjacent property owner for short-term parking and space for a
> trolley to turn around.
>
> Executive Director Patricia Quinn said the Northern New England
> Passenger Rail Authority is working with the Maine Department of
> Transportation to secure funding to install a temporary platform so
> the service could possibly begin next summer...

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Downeaster train service adds stop in Kennebunk

How far to the Trolley Museum is that ?

About 15 mins. at most if you go by car and encounter some traffic on rte. 1 north but its not really a long ride.. If you go through Kennbunkport itself you can encounter hordes of tourists and going thought the downtown itself might slow you down but it is a fascinating, lovely town to see. Probably faster if you stay on rte. 1 north and a wee bit north of Kennbunk is the road on the right to the trolley museum. Once you turn off it is about a five minute ride to the museum and you will go over a bridge which has the Pan Am tracks underneath.

Maybe they will have some sort of trolley bus service in effect such as the one that serves Wells.

How much would a taxi cost ?

Don't some former Presidents hang out there?? Maybe they could ride train #1!!

How far to the southbound turnpike service plaza's fresh banana man is that?

Seashore does have diesel buses in their collection, and I think some of them are "street legal". I checked the distance from Depot St. to Seashore and it's a bit under four miles.



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cutboy2 Wrote:
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> Don't some former Presidents hang out there??
> Maybe they could ride train #1!!

The Bush clan has property there.

Walker's Point in Kennebunkport is the summer home of former Pres. George H.W. Bush. Kennebunk itself is a few miles west of this location and is a separate town. That may not sound like a large distance to some but in that neck of the woods, it is a huge distance!

Bruce