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Arlington was a station on the abandoned North Shore Branch of the Staten Island Railway, in Staten Island, New York. Located in an open-cut from the Saint George terminal., it had two tracks and one island platform.〔 For a few years before its closure in 1953, it was the western (railroad direction south) terminus of the North Shore Line; before then, the terminus was the Port Ivory station to the west, though most trains terminated at Arlington. It was located in the Arlington and Mariners Harbor sections of Staten Island, near the Arlington Yard, under the South Avenue overpass, between Arlington Place and Brabant Street.〔 The station opened in the summer of 1886. The name of the neighborhood Arlington was coined after the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) purchased a farm at Old Place, on Staten Island’s northwestern corner, which would become the Arlington freight yard. The B&O renamed the area Arlington.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in New Jersey )〕 An exit staircase to South Avenue and a stationhouse were located at the east end of the plaftorm. A wooden overpass to the side of the right-of-way was located at the west end. Non-electrified freight sidings were located on both sides of the station, with a switch to the northern-most track located in the center of the station.〔 The station was closed on March 31, 1953, along with the rest of the North Shore Branch and the South Beach Branch.〔〔 The station site is currently occupied by tail tracks for the reactivated Arlington freight yard, which began serving the Howland Hook Marine Terminal in 2005. Because of this, the former station was demolished.〔〔 Arlington is one of the stations to be returned to operation under the proposals for reactivation of the North Shore branch for rapid transit, light rail, or bus rapid transit service. Any new service would require a physical separation from the current freight tracks; a new terminal station has been proposed south of the site near Forest Avenue.〔〔 ==References== * http://stationreporter.net/nshore.htm * http://gretschviking.net/GOSIRTNorthShore.htm 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arlington (Staten Island Railway station)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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