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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.
Houston is the planned southern terminus of the Texas Central Railway high-speed line.The station is located in the Lazybrook/Timbergrove neighborhood of Houston, Texas, northeast of the Interstate 610 and U.S. Route 290 interchange at the site of the former Northwest Mall.
The system currently has 39 stations and 22.7 miles (36.5 km) of track, served by three lines. [1] METRORail carries 60,600 passengers a day, making it one of the largest light rail systems in the United States in terms of ridership. [2] METRORail began service on January 1, 2004, with 16 stations from Fannin South station to UH–Downtown ...
The present Houston station, which opened on October 26, 1959, was built by the Southern Pacific Railroad to replace Grand Central Station, which was just east of the present station. That station operated from September 1, 1934 until the property was sold to the U.S. Government in 1959 to become the site of the Houston main post office .
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.
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 ...
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Houston and Texas Central Railway: Waco Tap Railroad: SP: 1866 1870 Waco and Northwestern Railroad: Warren Central Railroad: SP: 1930 1934 Texas and New Orleans Railroad: Warren and Corsicana Pacific Railway: 1899 1908 N/A Washington County Railroad: SP: 1856 1868 Houston and Texas Central Railway: Waxahachie Tap Railroad: SP: 1875 1881