Staten Island Railway Totally Explained

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	Stations	Connections
Staten Island
	St. George	Staten Island Ferry
Service to/from St. George or Tottenville enter/leave here
	RCB Ballpark
Service to/from St. George skip RCB Ballpark
	Tompkinsville
	Stapleton
	Clifton*
	Grasmere
	Old Town
	Dongan Hills
	Jefferson Avenue
	Grant City
	New Dorp
	Oakwood Heights
	Bay Terrace
	Great Kills
	Eltingville
	Annadale
	Huguenot
	Prince's Bay
	Pleasant Plains
	Richmond Valley*
	Nassau**
	Atlantic* **
	Tottenville

* Passengers may board/alight trains:
At Clifton using the first three cars (St. George-bound trains only; all cars in Tottenville direction), at Richmond Valley using the first three cars only in both directions, and at Atlantic using the last car only in both directions. ** Planned to be replaced by Arthur Kill Road station.

Former stations on closed lines

North Shore Branch (closed at midnight on tuesday March 31, 1953) (abandoned) (6.1 miles)

St. George (0.0)
RCB Ballpark (Station, which serves Richmond County Bank Ballpark and utilizes a short portion of the abandoned north shore ROW. It was opened in 2001 and currently in service during playing season.) (0.1)
New Brighton- Located at the northerly end of Jersey St. (0.7)
Sailors Snug Harbor- Located at Clinton Avenue and Richmond Terrace (1.2)
Livingston - Located at Bard Avenue and Richmond Terrace (1.8)
West Brighton - Located at Richmond Terrace between North Burgher Avenue and Broadway; now situated on private property - a fact that has proven problematical in efforts to restore service on the line (2.4)
Port Richmond- Located at Park Avenue and Church Street (3.0)
Tower Hill- Located between Treadwell and Sharpe Avenues (3.4)
Elm Park - Located at Morningstar Road and Innis Street (3.9)
Lake Avenue - Located at Lake Avenue (4.3)
Mariners Harbor - Located at Van Pelt Avenue (4.6)
Harbor Road - Located at Harbor Road (4.9)
Arlington - Located at South Avenue (5.2)
Port Ivory (formerly Milliken -- named for the Port Ivory manufacturing plant of Procter & Gamble, where Ivory Soap was once made) (6.1)

South Beach Branch (closed at midnight tuesday March 31, 1953) (demolished) (4.1 miles)

Bachman's Brewery (Eliminated in 1937) - Located between Lynhurst and Chestnut Avenues (2.0)

Rosebank - Located at Virginia Ave. and Tilson Pl. (2.1)

Belair Road - Located near Belair Rd and Seth Loop. (2.5)

Fort Wadsworth - Located at Fingerboard Rd. (2.7)

Arrochar - Located at Major Ave. (3.2)

Cedar Avenue - Located at Cedar Ave. between Conger St. and Railroad Ave. (3.5)

South Beach - Located at Sand Lane. (3.9)

Wentworth Avenue - Located in weeded area at the now abandoned section of Wentworth Avenue (4.1)

Industries serviced

North Shore: Procter & Gamble, United States Gypsum, Staten Island Ship Building, Car Float
Travis Line: Gulf Oil Port, Con Edison coal plant
Tottenville Line: Nassau Smelting, Staten Island Advance, Pouch Terminal

Future service

The Staten Island Advance reported in May 2006 that Staten Island business and political leaders are looking to restore service on the North Shore Branch. They are seeking approval of $4 million in federal funding for a detailed feasibility study, to revive the North Shore line as a commuter line ending at the St. George Ferry Terminal. Alternatively, there has been talk of adding light rail service to Staten Island.
Completion of the study is necessary to qualify the project for the estimated $360 million it requires to develop the 5.1-mile line. A preliminary study found that ridership could hit 15,000 daily.
There are plans to construct a new station named Arthur Kill Road, near the southern terminus of the line, which will essentially replace both the Atlantic and Nassau stations, which are in the most poor condition of all the stations on the line. Also, there's discussion of possibly building a Rosebank station, which will bridge the longest gap between two stations (Grasmere and Clifton). A Rosebank station once existed on the now-defunct South Beach spur of the railway.

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