Richmond County Bank Ballpark station

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BallPark
Former Staten Island Railway station
Richmond County Ballpark Station (14656559652).jpg
General information
LocationWall Street & Richmond Terrace
St. George, Staten Island
Coordinates 40°38′43″N74°04′38″W / 40.6452°N 74.0773°W / 40.6452; -74.0773
Line(s) SIR North Shore Line
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks1
Construction
Structure typeAt-grade
History
OpenedJune 24, 2001 [1]
ClosedJune 18, 2010 [2]
Former services
Preceding station MTA NYC logo.svg Staten Island Railway Following station
Terminus NYCS-bull-trans-SIR-Std.svg St. George
toward Tottenville

Richmond County Bank Ballpark, styled simply as Ball Park and BallPark on station signage, is a disused station on the Staten Island Railway, located at Wall Street and Richmond Terrace.

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History

The station was opened on June 24, 2001 in conjunction with the Staten Island Yankees baseball season, serving the team's new Richmond County Bank Ballpark on game days only. [2] [3] [1] [4] It was the newest station on the railway until the opening of Arthur Kill station on January 21, 2017. [5] This station was only operational during the baseball season, which usually ran from June to September. [3] One train was scheduled to travel to/from Tottenville, with two or three shuttle trains from St. George serving the station. [3]

Due to a budget crisis suffered by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, this station was closed on June 18, 2010, the date of the first scheduled home game of the season. [3] As a result, a short walk from St. George, or traveling on the S40 or S44 buses, is required to reach the stadium. [2] [3] [6] Trains last served the station in September 2009. [3] The station is still used by employees to reach locomotives that are now stored on the only track at this station.

Station layout

G-Street level
P
Platform level
Northern trackwayTrackbed
Island platform, not in service
Southern trackNo passenger service
(No service: Tompkinsville or St. George)
Looking down at the station in 2017 Former Richmond County Bank Ballpark SIRR station - 08-27-17 (03).jpg
Looking down at the station in 2017

The station is located underneath the stadium below the northern sidewalk of Richmond Terrace between Wall Street and Hamilton Avenue. It is about 150 yards (140 m) west of Saint George Terminal along what used to be the North Shore Branch Line, which is not considered part of the main line of the railway. It consists of an island platform, with a double wide staircase to Wall Street at the east end and ADA elevator to Hamilton Avenue at the west end. [7]

There are no turnstiles at this station. It is served by a one-track wye which extends from St. George to the southern (geographically eastern) trackway of the station's island platform. Bumper blocks are present at the end of the station, though the wye continues to the end of the ballpark parking lot where it ends at a second set of bumper blocks. This section originally was electrified but is no longer powered. After the abandonment of the station, the sole track is used to store locomotives. The northern trackway currently has no track and is unused. [7]

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