[4] In 1925, the branch was extended one stop to Wentworth Avenue, with a platform just long enough to accommodate one door of a single car.

The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, which owned the branch and eventually wanted to abandon the unprofitable service, purposely looked the other way when conductors skimmed something off the top.

This allowed B&O to show a lower ridership to the Interstate Commerce Commission, thereby encouraging the abandonment of the branch.

The short South Beach and North Shore branches were agreed to be no longer viable and passenger service was terminated on both lines March 31, 1953.

Today, houses stand on most of the line, and some of it was demolished in the early 1960s to make way for the Verrazano Bridge toll plaza and access ramps.

[9] Reactivating the South Beach Branch would have required tunneling under the bridge toll plaza and removing several buildings on the right-of-way, according to a 1991 study.