Fort Worth Central station

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New Name of station.

https://ridetrinitymetro.org/trinity-metros-downtown-rail-and-bus-station-renamed/ 

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That's the kind of name a downtown rail station should have.  Tip of the hat to Trinity Metro for the renaming.

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Isn't Fort Worth where there was a streetcar line to a department store? 

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54light15

Isn't Fort Worth where there was a streetcar line to a department store? 

 

 

Yup. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_Center_Subway

 

As for the TTC, I visited there recently and I'm glad it was renamed.  However, due to its non-central location, "Central" doesn't sound like it should be part of the name since it refers to the facility being a central bus/rail link, not a central location.

 

It's a block from the Fort Worth Water Gardens, a former freight depot now housing a University of Texas - Arlington extention, and a former passenger station turned reception hall called Ashton Depot.

 

To the east is a rail yard.

 

On the other side of the Water Gardens is the former Texas & Pacific Railroad Passenger Station and its warehouse, both now mostly repurposed. The ground floor passenger station had been abandoned in 1967 and reopened in 2001 when Trinity Railway Express started serving the renovated station.  All but the ground floor had been repurposed for other uses since 1967 largely because an elevated highway, Interstate 30, along present-day W. Lancaster Avenue limited access to the T&P passenger station, hastening its closure.  The highway's planned removal revived the area and the station. I-30 was demolished and replaced with W. Lancaster Avenue by 2002.

 

Fort Worth has a colorful history of highway building and removal, not to mention rail service.