Bachmann (Staten Island Railway station)

Bachmann
Former Staten Island Railway rapid transit station
Station statistics
Borough Staten Island
Coordinates 40°37′00″N 74°04′18″W / 40.616667°N 74.071667°W / 40.616667; -74.071667 (Bachmann Station)Coordinates: 40°37′00″N 74°04′18″W / 40.616667°N 74.071667°W / 40.616667; -74.071667 (Bachmann Station)
Line South Beach Branch
Services none
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 2
Other information
Opened March 8, 1886
Closed 1937
Station succession

Preceding station   Staten Island Railway   Following station
Terminus
South Beach Branch
closed

Bachmann was a station on the demolished South Beach Branch of the Staten Island Railway. Constructed in 1886 to serve the employees of Bachmann's Brewery, it had two tracks and two side platforms, and was located east of Tompkins Avenue, between Lynhurst and Chestnut Avenues.[1] During a grade crossing elimination project on the South Beach Branch, the station was closed and razed in 1937, due to its proximity to the Rosebank station and the fact that the brewery never reopened after Prohibition. Well after the closure of the Bachmann station, the rest of the South Beach Branch was abandoned in 1953, because of city-operated bus competition.[2][3][4][5]

References

  1. ↑ "Gary Owen's SIRT Page". Gary Owen Land. Retrieved 2015-12-13.
  2. ↑ "Gary Owen SIRT Page Part Two". Gary Owen Land. Retrieved 2015-10-08.
  3. ↑ Pitanza, Marc (2015). Staten Island Rapid Transit Images of Rail. Arcadia Pubishing. 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 14 October 2015.


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