South Beach
Former Staten Island Railway station
1907 Borough Hall survey South Beach
General information
LocationSouth Beach, Staten Island
Coordinates40°35′27″N 74°04′04″W / 40.590972°N 74.067639°W / 40.590972; -74.067639 (South Beach Station)
Line(s)South Beach Branch
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
History
Opened1890; 134 years ago (1890)
ClosedMarch 31, 1953; 71 years ago (1953-03-31)
Former services
Preceding station Staten Island Railway Following station
Cedar Avenue
toward Clifton
 South Beach Branch Wentworth Avenue
Terminus

South Beach was a station on the demolished South Beach Branch of the Staten Island Railway. It had two tracks and two side platforms, and was located at Sand Lane and Oceanside Avenue.

This station was the last stop on the South Beach Branch until the opening of the Wentworth Avenue in 1925, when the South Beach Branch was electrified.[1][2] The ticket agent at South Beach controlled the lights for Wentworth Avenue.[2] This station was abandoned when the SIRT discontinued passenger service on the entire South Beach Branch at midnight on March 31, 1953, because of city-operated bus competition.[2][3][4][5]

References

  1. ^ Bommer, Edward (2003). Stations and Places Along the Staten Island Rapid Transit. Retrieved November 19, 2015.
  2. ^ a b c "Gary Owen SIRT Page Part Two". Gary Owen Land. April 20, 1937. Retrieved October 8, 2015.
  3. ^ Pitanza, Marc (2015). Staten Island Rapid Transit Images of Rail. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4671-2338-9.
  4. ^ 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. ISBN 0-89024-072-8.
  5. ^ "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. Retrieved October 14, 2015.

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