Belair Road station
Belair Road | |||||||||||
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| FormerStaten Island Railwaystation | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | Staten Island | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°36′37″N74°04′02″W/ 40.610278°N 74.067222°W | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | South Beach Branch | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2side platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | March 8, 1886 | ||||||||||
| Closed | March 31, 1953 | ||||||||||
| Former services | |||||||||||
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Belair Roadis a demolished station on the abandonedSouth Beach Branchof theStaten Island Railway.It had twoside platformsand two tracks, and was located at Vermont Avenue, between Belair Road & St. Johns Avenue. This station served the US Quarantine station, which was one block to the east.[1][2]
The Belair Road station was built out of wood, and could only platform two cars. There was a shelter on one of the platforms. The station was rebuilt in 1936 with concrete. It was rebuilt with an underground access walkway on both sides of the station.[2]
North of the station, there was a trestle built at Saint John's Avenue in 1936 to allow the road to pass over the right-of-way. Today, all that is left of the trestle is a stanchion that has been morphed into part of someone's backyard, with a pool on top.[2]
This station was abandoned when the SIRT discontinued passenger service on theSouth Beach BranchtoWentworth Avenueat midnight on March 31, 1953 because of city-operated bus competition.[3][4][5][6]
References
[edit]- ^Bommer, Edward (2003).Stations and Places Along the Staten Island Rapid Transit.RetrievedNovember 19,2015.
- ^abc"Gary Owen's SIRT Page".Gary Owen Land.March 31, 1953.RetrievedDecember 13,2015.
- ^"Gary Owen SIRT Page Part Two".Gary Owen Land.April 20, 1937.RetrievedDecember 13,2015.
- ^Pitanza, Marc (2015).Staten Island Rapid Transit Images of Rail.Arcadia Publishing.ISBN978-1-4671-2338-9.
- ^Drury, George H. (1994).The Historical Guide to North American Railroads: Histories, Figures, and Features of more than 160 Railroads Abandoned or Merged since 1930.Waukesha, Wisconsin:Kalmbach Publishing.pp. 312–314.ISBN0-89024-072-8.
- ^"The Old Order Passeth: Rails Surrender To Roads: Passenger Runs on Two Lines of SIRT Will End at Midnight".Staten Island Advance. March 31, 1953.RetrievedOctober 14,2015.
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