Staten Island Railway

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Staten Island Railway
Great Kills Station
Great Kills Station
Staten Island Railway line
the red marked route is used by passenger traffic,
part of the brown marked section is used again by freight traffic
Route length: 22.5 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system : 660 V  =
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Port Ivory
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from Cranford (New Jersey)
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Arlington
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to Fresh Kills Landfill
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Harbor Road
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to Howland Hook Marine Terminal
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Mariners Harbor
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Lake Avenue
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Elm Park
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Tower Hill
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Port Richmond
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West Brighton
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Livingston
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Sailors Snug Harbor
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New Brighton
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Ball park
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St. George ( Staten Island Ferry )
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Tompkinsville
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Stapleton
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Clifton
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Rosebank
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Belair Road
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Fort Wadsworth
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Arrochar
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Cedar Avenue
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South beach
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Wentworth Avenue
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Grasmere
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Old Town
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Dongan Hills
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Jefferson Avenue
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Grant City
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New Dorp
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Oakwood Heights
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Bay Terrace
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Great kills
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Eltingville
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Annadale
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Huguenot
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Prince's Bay
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Pleasant Plains
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Richmond Valley
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Nassau (until January 2017)
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Arthur Kill (since January 2017)
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Atlantic (until January 2017)
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Tottenville

The Staten Island Railway ( SIR , originally SIRT ) is a standard gauge and electrified railway line on Staten Island , an island belonging to New York City . It was opened in 1860 and is used by trains made up of modified subway cars from the New York City Subway .

Officially known as the Staten Island Rapid Transit Operating Authority (SIRTOA) and operating under the marketing name MTA Staten Island Railway , the SIR is a subsidiary of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). SIRTOA operates and maintains the route on Staten Island under a leasing and operating agreement with the City of New York.

route

The 22.5 kilometer long, double-track stretch of the Staten Island Railway is standard-gauge (1435 millimeters) and electrified with power rails (660 V DC ). It begins at St. George station on the northeastern tip of the island and runs parallel to the east coast to Tottenville station in the southwest. At the twelve-track terminus at St. George there is a direct connection to the Staten Island Ferry , which runs to Battery Park on the southern tip of Manhattan .

The 9.8 kilometer long branch from St. George along the north coast towards New Jersey is only used by freight trains at the western end, passenger traffic has been discontinued. The short section to the Ballpark stop , which was used by special trains from 2001 to 2010 on match days in the neighboring baseball stadium Richmond County Bank Ballpark, was an exception at times . Another 7.1 kilometer long branch between Clifton and Wentworth Avenue has been completely dismantled, all bridges have been removed and houses have been built on the former route.

In January 2017, the Nassau and Atlantic stations were replaced by a new Arthur Kill station.

history

Staten Island Rail Road Company share dated March 28, 1864, signed by President William Henry Vanderbilt

The first plans to build a railway line along the east coast came in 1836. The Staten Island Railroad Incorporation was granted a concession, but could not raise enough funds, so the concession expired. On April 23, 1863, the first 12 kilometer section between the ferry dock in Clifton and Eltingville was opened by the Staten Island Rail-Road Company. From May 16, the trains ran to Annadale, from June 2 to Tottenville .

In 1883, the Staten Island Rail-Road Company, previously owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt , was taken over by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad . The name of the company changed to Staten Island Railway . This opened on July 31, 1884 the extension to the new St. George ferry terminal . On February 23, 1886, the North Shore Line opened , initially to Elm Park , followed two weeks later by the South Beach Line to Wentworth Avenue . A new bridge over the Arthur Kill enabled the operation of freight trains to Cranford (New Jersey) , where there was a connection to the rest of the North American rail network, from June 13, 1889 , on New Year's Day 1890 passenger trains ran for the first time on this section.

From August 1924 to June 1925, all three branches of the Staten Island Railway were electrified. The same electricity system was chosen as for the New York City Subway , as a tunnel to Brooklyn was planned and the island train was to be integrated into the subway network. Electrical operation began on July 1, 1925, but the tunnel construction stopped after a few meters and was never continued.

From the late 1940s, the number of passengers on the Staten Island Railway fell sharply due to the growing competition from the urban bus routes. On March 31, 1953, passenger traffic on the North Shore Line was set and the South Beach Line was shut down completely. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority took over on 1 July 1971. the operation of passenger trains on the remaining route between St. George and Tottenville . From 1973 rebuilt subway cars of the R44 series ran on the route and replaced all of the previous rolling stock.

CSX Transportation , the successor company to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, continued freight traffic on the North Shore Line , but stopped it in 1991. From June 24, 2001, special trains ran on the short section from St. George to Ball Park for games of the Staten Island Yankees minor league baseball team . These were discontinued on June 18, 2010 as part of major budget cuts by the MTA.

In October 1994, the New York City Municipal Economic Development Corporation acquired the North Shore Line from CSX for $ 10.3 million. At the same time, the New Jersey Department of Transportation took over the subsequent section on the mainland between Arthur Kill and Cranford Junction. After the renovation and reactivation of the Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge - lift bridge rail freight on Staten Iceland resumed on 2 April of 2007. The official reopening took place on April 17, 2007 by Mayor Michael Bloomberg . Conrail , a joint subsidiary of CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railway , operates several freight trains per week between New Jersey and Staten Island. These are mainly used to transport household waste from a transfer station on the site of the former Fresh Kills Landfill and to connect the Howland Hook Marine Terminal container port . To the east of this port, the North Shore Line is still out of service; there is therefore no active track connection between the part used for freight traffic in the north-west of the island and the passenger route on the east bank.

literature

  • Stephen Bogart: Little-known railroad . In: Trains . Kalmbach Publishing Co., February 1951, ISSN  0041-0934 , p. 20-26 .

Web links

Commons : Staten Island Railway  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Groundbreaking for New MTA Staten Island Railway Arthur Kill Station in Tottenville. Metropolitan Transportation Authority, October 18, 2013, accessed May 20, 2017 .
  2. Additional Actions for Budget Balance - IMPLEMENT. (PDF) Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), December 15, 2009, accessed on February 17, 2019 (English): “Discontinue (...) SIR Baseball Special: (...) Staten Island Railway operates a special train to the Stadium station at the Richmond County Ballpark on game days only. "
  3. ^ Evaluation of 2010 Service Reductions. (PDF) Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), September 23, 2011, accessed on February 17, 2019 : “In June 2010, New York City Transit (NYCT) reduced subway and bus service citywide in response to a large budget gap (...) Staten Island Railway (SIR): Discontinuation of (...) SIR baseball specials "
  4. James C. McKinley Jr .: Restoring the Rails on Staten Island; Plans for Economic Revival Stretch Along 15 Miles of Track . In: The New York Times . November 11, 1994 (English, nytimes.com [accessed February 18, 2019]).
  5. ^ Staten Island Railroad Reactivation. New York City Economic Development Corporation, September 12, 2016; accessed February 17, 2019 .
  6. ^ Of global trade and garbage. Progressive Railroading , October 2007, accessed February 17, 2019 .