Arrochar was a station on the demolished

South Beach Branch The South Beach Branch, also called the East Shore Sub-Division, is an abandoned branch of the Staten Island Railway in New York City, which operated along Staten Island's East Shore from Clifton to Wentworth Avenue. This double-tracked branch ...

of the

Staten Island Railway The Staten Island Railway (SIR) is a rapid transit line in the New York City borough (New York City), borough of Staten Island. It is owned by the Staten Island Rapid Transit Operating Authority (SIRTOA), a subsidiary of the Metropolitan Trans ...

. It had two

side platform A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platforms ...

s and two tracks and was located at Major Avenue. The station was able to platform two train cars.

History

This station was abandoned when the SIRT discontinued passenger service on the

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 The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge ( ) is a suspension bridge connecting the New York City boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn. It spans the Narrows, a body of water linking the relatively enclosed New York Harbor with Lower New York Bay an ...

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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*http://www.gretschviking.net/GOSIRTPage1.htm South Beach Branch stations 1886 establishments in New York (state) Railway stations in the United States opened in 1886 Railway stations closed in 1953 1953 disestablishments in New York (state) {{StatenIsland-railstation-stub