Clifton (Staten Island Railway station)

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Clifton {{NYCS {{{service}}}\|time=bullets}}
Staten Island Railway station
Sign at Clifton SIR Station
Station information
Services	time=full}}
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other
Borough	Staten Island
Opened	Unknown
Next north	Stapleton
Next south	Grasmere

Clifton is a Staten Island Railway train station in the neighborhood of Clifton, Staten Island, New York. It is located at Norwood Avenue and Bay Street on the main line. It is located on an embankment with side platforms and beige canopies. The Clifton Yard is next to the northbound track, with yard leads and signals north of this station. The north end has exits on both platforms that lead to Bay Street. The southbound platform has winding stairs to Townsend Avenue while the northbound platform has stairs under the right-of-way to Midwood Avenue. The northbound platform also has a second staircase on Bay and Edgewater Streets, which is not present on the southbound side. On Bay Street (sidewalk level) and facing the platform above, are remains of original steps up to the old station platform, which was inaccessible when platforms were extended in the 1990s. On the southbound side is station house on the outside, but a shelter on platform. Some of the boarded up windows and layout of this brick shelter does suggest that it was originally a station house. North of this station are the remains of the South Beach cutoff and a dismantled bridge. To the south, a spur on a pair of I-beams on concrete pillars is the location of an old coal, concrete, and lumber industry. Here, the line turns southward to Tottenville, no longer running along the harbor front.