A Train Ride at the Seashore

Preserving some of the past the Cape May Seashore line provides excursion services between Richland and Tuckahoe and Cape May Court House, Cold Spring Village and Cape May.

Victorian Cape May City, the “Nation’s Oldest Seashore Resort”, has been welcoming visitors for more than a century.  Years ago vacationers and day-trippers alike came to Cape May.  Whether they came for fun, excitement and relaxation or on business they came by train!

Cape May was once served by three famous railroads, the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Reading Company and the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines.  Cape May Seashore Lines is proud to provide passenger rail service to this one-of-a-kind Victorian resort.

Cape May Seashore Lines has been around for about 15 years.  My son was eight when we took our first train ride from the Cold Spring Village Station to the Cape May Court House Station and back.  It was in late October in the early evening.  The haunted train ride had a story teller telling tales of area ghost and the infamous Jersey Devil.

If you have a chance to take a comfortable, relaxing trip back in time take the train to the shore for an exciting and memorable experience.

Enjoy the same experience today as you ride the original equipment operated in south Jersey by the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines, the Reading Company and the Pennsylvania Railroad.

For a long time, railroads provided the means for people to visit the Jersey Shore. Most of the coastal towns including Cape May, Wildwood, and Long Beach Island were served by a railroad. With the popularity of the automobile, the days of steam engines pulling into the shore towns was over.