Belair Road (Staten Island Railway station)

Belair Road
Former Staten Island Railway rapid transit station
Station statistics
Borough Staten Island
Coordinates 40°36′37″N 74°04′02″W / 40.610278°N 74.067222°W / 40.610278; -74.067222 (Belair Road Station)Coordinates: 40°36′37″N 74°04′02″W / 40.610278°N 74.067222°W / 40.610278; -74.067222 (Belair Road Station)
Line South Beach Branch
Services none
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 2
Other information
Opened March 8, 1886
Closed March 31, 1953
Station succession

Preceding station   Staten Island Railway   Following station
toward Clifton
South Beach Branch
closed

Belair Road is a demolished station on the abandoned South Beach Branch of the Staten Island Railway. It had two side platforms and 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 the South Beach Branch to Wentworth Avenue at midnight on March 31, 1953 because of city-operated bus competition.[3][4][5][6]

References

  1. ↑ Bommer, Edward (2003). Stations and Places Along the Staten Island Rapid Transit. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 "Gary Owen's SIRT Page". Gary Owen Land. 1953-03-31. Retrieved 2015-12-13.
  3. ↑ "Gary Owen SIRT Page Part Two". Gary Owen Land. 1937-04-20. Retrieved 2015-12-13.
  4. ↑ Pitanza, Marc (2015). Staten Island Rapid Transit Images of Rail. Arcadia Pubishing. ISBN 978-1-4671-2338-9.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ "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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