Cape Flyer flies into Wareham Memorial Day weekend

May 18, 2015

The Cape Flyer train will make its first voyage of 2015 on Friday, May 22, shuttling weekend visitors between Boston and Hyannis.

The train will stop on Merchants Way behind Main Street at 7:05 p.m. Friday on its way to Hyannis. The Wareham militia will be on hand that night to greet the train's arrival in Wareham.

The train, which runs on weekends until Columbus Day between South Station and Hyannis, has stops in Braintree, Brockton, Middleboro/Lakeville, and Buzzards Bay. It operated in the summer of 2013 for the first time and made stops in Wareham for the first time last year. Tom Cahir, an administrator for the Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority, which runs the train in partnership with the MBTA and Massachusetts Department of Transportation, said the train saw more than 17,000 riders in the first year of operation.

Tickets to Hyannis from Wareham are $8 round trip, $4 for seniors. One way tickets are $5. Though the connection to the Cape is one prominent feature of the service, the fact that the train can be taken to Boston is an added bonus to locals looking to get away for the weekend. Tickets for a one-way trip from South Station to Wareham are $20. Round-trip tickets are $35.

Free parking is available near the platform in the small parking lot abutting the Wareham Fire Station on Main Street and the Greater Attleboro Taunton Regional Transit Authority will provide shuttle service between Onset and Wareham Center.

Trains leave Boston on Friday evenings at 5:50 p.m. and leave from Hyannis at 9 p.m. On Saturdays and Sundays trains leave Boston at 8 a.m. and leave Hyannis at 6:40 p.m. The train will also operate on a Saturdays and Sundays schedule for Memorial Day and Labor Day. Full schedules can be found online at www.capeflyer.com.