Wentworth Avenue station

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 Wentworth Avenue
 
Former Staten Island Railway station
Station statistics
BoroughStaten Island
Coordinates40°35′21″N 74°04′11″W / 40.589028°N 74.069861°W / 40.589028; -74.069861 (Wentworth Avenue Station)Coordinates: 40°35′21″N 74°04′11″W / 40.589028°N 74.069861°W / 40.589028; -74.069861 (Wentworth Avenue Station)
Division[1]
LineSouth Beach Branch
Servicesnone
Platforms1 side platform
Tracks1
Other information
Opened1925; 97 years ago (1925)[2]
ClosedMarch 31, 1953; 68 years ago (1953-03-31)
Station succession
Next northSouth Beach
Next south(Terminal)
Location
Wentworth Avenue station is located in New York City Subway
Wentworth Avenue station
Street map

Wentworth Avenue was a station on the demolished South Beach Branch of the Staten Island Railway. It had one side platform served by one track and was located at Oceanside Avenue and Wentworth Avenue (which is currently an empty area with weeds).

History[]

This station was the last stop on the South Beach Branch, and was the smallest and easternmost Baltimore and Ohio Railroad station.[3] The South Beach Branch was planned to continue past this point to Prominard Street at Oakwood Beach, but was not built beyond Wentworth Avenue because the branch would have crossed the Vanderbilt family farm.[3] This station was built in 1925, when the South Beach Branch was electrified.[3][4] This platform was only a door's length and had to be keyed open by the conductor.[3][4][5] The platform's length was 20 feet 11 inches.[5] The station had electric lights, but there was no electrical switch for them at the station.[4] Instead, the ticket agent at South Beach controlled the lights.[4] 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.[4][6][7][8] All traces of the station have been eliminated, as well as adjacent streets and access roads.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ "Glossary". Second Avenue Subway Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) (PDF). 1. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. March 4, 2003. pp. 1–2. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2021. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
  2. ^ "Gary Owen SIRT Page Part Two". Retrieved April 11, 2016.
  3. ^ a b c d Bommer, Edward (2003). Stations and Places Along the Staten Island Rapid Transit. Retrieved November 19, 2015.
  4. ^ a b c d e f "Gary Owen SIRT Page Part Two". Gary Owen Land. April 20, 1937. Retrieved October 8, 2015.
  5. ^ a b Wentworth Avenue Station Plans
  6. ^ Pitanza, Marc (2015). Staten Island Rapid Transit Images of Rail. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4671-2338-9.
  7. ^ 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.
  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. Retrieved October 14, 2015.


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