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North Shore Branch
The North Shore Branch is an abandoned branch of the Staten Island Railway in New York City, which operated along Staten Island's North Shore from Saint George to Port Ivory. The line continues into New Jersey via the Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge to Cranford Junction. Trains on the branch used tracks 10 through 12 at the Saint George Terminal. Trains originally consisted of two and three car trains during the AM and PM rush hours, and one car trains during other times; by the end of end of passenger service, trains used only one car.〔
The fares on the branch were collected by the conductor on the train, who had to pull a cord, similar to how it was done with trolleys. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, which owned the branch, which wanted to reduce service on the branch, and eventually abandon it, purposely looked the other way when conductors skimmed something off the top, allowing them to show a lower ridership to the Interstate Commerce Commission, and in return improved their chances for abandoning the branch.
Rapid transit service on the line ended on March 31, 1953, and freight service ended by 1989. In 2005, freight service on the western portion of the line was reactivated, and there are proposals to reactivate the former passenger line for rail or bus service.〔
==Route description==
The North Shore branch of the SIRT began at Saint George Terminal, using the northernmost platform and tracks of the terminal. After running through the St. George Freight Yard (near the modern Ballpark Station), the line ran on the shore of the Kill Van Kull from New Brighton to West Brighton. The line ran on land between St. George and New Brighton, and on a ballast-filled wood trestle supported by a wood retaining wall through Livingston and West Brighton. Though the right-of-way is distinguishable, little evidence of this portion of the line exists today, except for abandoned tracks and supports, much of which has eroded into the kull. Past West Brighton near a NYCDEP water pollution control facility, the line rose onto a reinforced concrete trestle known as the Port Richmond Viaduct, crossing Bodine Creek and running for about a mile through the Port Richmond neighborhood.〔〔 West of Nicholas Avenue near Port Richmond High School, the line depressed into an open cut, crossing under the Bayonne Bridge approach and continued west to the Arlington Yard and station at South Avenue.〔〔〔 Rapid transit service continued via a northern spur to Port Ivory; freight service passed the current Howland Hook Marine Terminal (adjacent to Port Ivory) and crossed the Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge to Cranford Junction in New Jersey.〔〔 The right-of-way from the Port Richmond Viaduct to Arlington Yard has remained intact and in good condition, though the former station sites and infrastructure are dilapidated and need rehabilitation or replacement should passenger service be reactivated.〔〔〔〔〔〔
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