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Coordinates: 40°35′21″N 74°04′11″W / 40.589028°N 74.069861°W / 40.589028; -74.069861 (Wentworth Avenue Station)
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| name = Wentworth Avenue
| name = Wentworth Avenue
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| type = Former [[Staten Island Railway]] station
| type = SIR
| line = [[Staten Island Railway#South Beach Branch|SIR South Beach Branch]]
| line = [[South Beach Branch]]
| service_custom = none
| font_color = white
| bg_color = black<!-- for now; we need to find the hexadecimal code used for the SIR, similar to the subway bullets' hex codes -->
| tracks = 1
| tracks = 1
| platforms = 1 [[side platform]]
| platforms = 1 [[side platform]]
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| address =
| address = [[Staten Island]]
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| borough = [[Staten Island]]
| opened = {{start date and age|1925|mf=yes}}<ref name="GO">{{cite web|url=http://www.gretschviking.net/GOSIRTPagePartTwo.htm|title=Gary Owen SIRT Page Part Two|access-date=April 11, 2016}}</ref>
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| other_services_header=Former services
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| other_services={{Adjacent stations|system=Staten Island Railway former|line=South Beach|left=South Beach}}
| close_date = March 31, 1953
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'''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. This platform was only a door's length, and had to be keyed open by the conductor. It was abandoned, along with the rest of the South Beach Branch, and the North Shore Branch, on March 31, 1953. It was located at Oceanside Avenue & Wentworth Avenue (which is currently an empty area with weeds)
'''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 has been restored to a [[Bluebelt]] [[wetland]] since its acquisition by the [[New York City Department of Environmental Protection|NYC DEP]] as part of the [[South Beach, Staten Island|South Beach]] Drainage Plan. Much of the area along the coast nearby has been similarly acquired by city or state agencies in order to allow for storm protection since the devastation wrought by [[Hurricane Sandy]].


==References==
==History==
This station was the last stop on the South Beach Branch, and was the smallest and easternmost [[Baltimore and Ohio Railroad]] station.<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> 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.<ref name=EdwardBommer /> This station was built in 1925, when the South Beach Branch was electrified.<ref name=EdwardBommer /><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=October 8, 2015}}</ref> This platform was only a door's length and had to be keyed open by the conductor.<ref name=EdwardBommer /><ref name="Gary Owen Land 1937" /><ref name="Wentworth">[http://www.gretschviking.net/GOSIRTPagePartTwo_files/image120.jpg Wentworth Avenue Station Plans]</ref> The platform's length was 20 feet 11 inches.<ref name="Wentworth" /> The station had electric lights, but there was no electrical switch for them at the station.<ref name="Gary Owen Land 1937" /> Instead, the ticket agent at [[South Beach (Staten Island Railway station)|South Beach]] controlled the lights.<ref name="Gary Owen Land 1937" /> 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.<ref name="Gary Owen Land 1937" /><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&dq=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> All traces of the station have been eliminated, as well as adjacent streets and access roads.<ref name="Gary Owen Land 1937" />
* {{cite web| author=Peggy Darlington| url=http://www.stationreporter.net/sbeach.htm| title=Staten Island Railway South Shore Line Ventworth Avenue to St. George| year=2011| work=Station Reporter| }}


{{Clear}}
==External links==

* [http://www.gretschviking.net/GOSIRTPage1.htm Gary Owen’s S.I.R.T. South Beach Line Page]
==References==
{{Reflist}}


{{Staten Island Rapid Transit Operating Authority}}
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Latest revision as of 12:43, 1 November 2023

Wentworth Avenue
Former Staten Island Railway station
General information
LocationStaten Island
Coordinates40°35′21″N 74°04′11″W / 40.589028°N 74.069861°W / 40.589028; -74.069861 (Wentworth Avenue Station)
Line(s)South Beach Branch
Platforms1 side platform
Tracks1
History
Opened1925; 99 years ago (1925)[1]
ClosedMarch 31, 1953; 71 years ago (1953-03-31)
Former services
Preceding station Staten Island Railway Following station
South Beach
toward Clifton
 South Beach Branch Terminus

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 has been restored to a Bluebelt wetland since its acquisition by the NYC DEP as part of the South Beach Drainage Plan. Much of the area along the coast nearby has been similarly acquired by city or state agencies in order to allow for storm protection since the devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy.

History[edit]

This station was the last stop on the South Beach Branch, and was the smallest and easternmost Baltimore and Ohio Railroad station.[2] 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.[2] This station was built in 1925, when the South Beach Branch was electrified.[2][3] This platform was only a door's length and had to be keyed open by the conductor.[2][3][4] The platform's length was 20 feet 11 inches.[4] The station had electric lights, but there was no electrical switch for them at the station.[3] Instead, the ticket agent at South Beach controlled the lights.[3] 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.[3][5][6][7] All traces of the station have been eliminated, as well as adjacent streets and access roads.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Gary Owen SIRT Page Part Two". Retrieved April 11, 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d Bommer, Edward (2003). Stations and Places Along the Staten Island Rapid Transit. Retrieved November 19, 2015.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Gary Owen SIRT Page Part Two". Gary Owen Land. April 20, 1937. Retrieved October 8, 2015.
  4. ^ a b Wentworth Avenue Station Plans
  5. ^ Pitanza, Marc (2015). Staten Island Rapid Transit Images of Rail. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4671-2338-9.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ "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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