Belair Road station: Difference between revisions

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{{Infobox station

| type = Former [[Staten Island Railway]] station

| address = [[Staten Island]]

| opened = {{start date and age|1886|Mar|8|mf=yes}}

| closed = {{start date and age|1953|Mar|31|mf=yes}}

| other_services_header=Former services

| other_services={{Adjacent stations|system=Staten Island Railway former|line=South Beach|left=Rosebank|right=Fort Wadsworth}}

'''Belair Road''' is a demolished station on the abandoned [[South Beach Branch]] of the [[Staten Island Railway]]. It had two [[side platform]]s 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.<ref name=EdwardBommer>{{cite book|last1=Bommer|first1=Edward|title=Stations and Places Along the Staten Island Rapid Transit|date=2003|url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzKvSWhrQBW4RlBVZGc5d0VNQ28/view|access-date=November 19, 2015}}</ref><ref name="Gary Owen Land 1953">{{cite web | title=Gary Owen's SIRT Page | website=Gary Owen Land | date=March 31, 1953 | url=http://www.gretschviking.net/GOSIRTPage1.htm | access-date=December 13, 2015}}</ref>

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.<ref name="Gary Owen Land 1953" />

[[File:SIRR South Beach Br.jpg|thumb|Remnant of trestle support on St.&nbsp;Johns Avenue]]

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.<ref name="Gary Owen Land 1953" />

This station was abandoned when the SIRT discontinued passenger service on the [[South Beach Branch]] to [[Wentworth Avenue (Staten Island Railway station)|Wentworth Avenue]] at midnight on March 31, 1953 because of city-operated bus competition.<ref name="Gary Owen Land 1937">{{cite web | title=Gary Owen SIRT Page Part Two | website=Gary Owen Land | date=April 20, 1937 | url=http://www.gretschviking.net/GOSIRTPagePartTwo.htm | access-date=December 13, 2015}}</ref><ref name="SIRT">{{cite book |last=Pitanza |first=Marc |title=Staten Island Rapid Transit Images of Rail |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |year=2015 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eOSsCQAAQBAJ&q=staten+island+rapid+transit&pg=PA7 |isbn=978-1-4671-2338-9}}</ref><ref name="drury">{{cite book |last=Drury |first=George H. |title=The Historical Guide to North American Railroads: Histories, Figures, and Features of more than 160 Railroads Abandoned or Merged since 1930 |publisher=[[Kalmbach Publishing]] |year=1994 |location=[[Waukesha, Wisconsin]] |pages=312–314 |isbn=0-89024-072-8}}</ref><ref name="1953Closure">{{cite news|title=The Old Order Passeth: Rails Surrender To Roads: Passenger Runs on Two Lines of SIRT Will End at Midnight|url=http://gretschviking.net/GOSIRTPage1_files/image009.jpg|access-date=October 14, 2015|publisher=Staten Island Advance|date=March 31, 1953}}</ref>

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