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Central Station is a light rail station served by METRORail in downtown Houston, Texas, United States. It serves as a major transfer point between the Red , Purple and Green lines. It is the busiest station on the Green and Purple lines.
The Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad was the final name of a system of railroads throughout Florida, becoming part of the Seaboard Air Line Railway in 1900. The system, including some of the first railroads in Florida, stretched from Jacksonville west through Tallahassee and south to Tampa .
The main route of the Florida Central Railroad from Tavares to Orlando was originally built by the Tavares, Orlando and Atlantic Railroad.It was incorporated in 1883, and built as an extension of the Leesburg and Indian River Railroad, which branched off the Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad in Wildwood and ran through Leesburg to Tavares.
Although the Houston and Texas Central Railway is the central focus of the map, it also delineates the railroad's integration with New York shipping and railroad magnate Charles W. Morgan's steamship lines, the Texas and New Orleans, the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio, the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, and other railroads.
Central stations or central railway stations emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century as railway stations that had initially been built on the edge of city centres were enveloped by urban expansion and became an integral part of the city centres themselves.
The railway line was sold to Charles Morgan in March 1877. The Houston and Texas Central Railway Company entered receivership on February 23, 1885; the Main Line and the Western Division were sold to the Houston and Texas Central Railroad Company on April 1, 1890. The Waco and Northwestern Division remained in receivership until it was sold on ...
30th Street Station in Philadelphia Omaha station in Omaha, Nebraska, designed as part of the Amtrak Standard Stations Program This is a list of train stations and Amtrak Thruway stops used by Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation in the United States). This list is in alphabetical order by station or stop name, which mostly corresponds to the city in which it is located. If an ...
At 156 miles in length, it was the longest railroad to be completed in Florida before the start of the American Civil War. [1]: 27–31 [3]: 451–452 The Florida Railroad was adversely affected by the Civil War. The USS Hatteras raided Cedar Key in January 1862, destroying the railroad's rolling stock and buildings.