Arrochar station

Arrochar
Former Staten Island Railway rapid transit station
Station statistics
Borough	Staten Island
Locale	Arrochar
Coordinates	40°35′59″N 74°04′00″W / 40.599722°N 74.066528°W / 40.599722; -74.066528 (Arrochar Station)Coordinates: 40°35′59″N 74°04′00″W / 40.599722°N 74.066528°W / 40.599722; -74.066528 (Arrochar Station)
Line	South Beach Branch
Services	none
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	March 8, 1886; 132 years ago (1886-03-08)
Closed	March 31, 1953; 65 years ago (1953-03-31)
Station succession
Preceding station   Staten Island Railway   Following station Fort Wadsworth toward Clifton South Beach Branch closed Cedar Avenue toward Wentworth Avenue
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Arrochar was a station on the demolished South Beach Branch of the Staten Island Railway. It had two side platforms and two tracks and was located at Major Avenue. The station was able to platform two train cars.

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. The station was fully demolished when the toll plaza of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge was built near the same location. Only one staircase that led to the station remained by 1963, as the rest of the station was covered by displaced dirt coming from the construction of the approach to the Verrazano Bridge. The location where McClean Avenue used to bridge over the right-of-way, which was built in 1936, has been filled in some time after 1964 for the construction of houses along the right-of-way, and the bridge can still be detected by the cement in the middle of McClean Avenue.

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