Fort Worth Central Station is an

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center in downtown

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. It serves the TEXRail and

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(TRE) commuter rail lines,

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, and as the main transfer center for

Trinity Metro Trinity Metro is a transit agency located in and serving the city of Fort Worth, Texas and its suburbs in surrounding Tarrant County, part of the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area. Since 1983, it was previously known officially as the Fort ...

buses. It is located at the corner of 9th and Jones Streets, on the east side of downtown Fort Worth. TRE service began on December 3, 2001, Amtrak service followed in 2002, and most recently TEXRail began service on January 10, 2019. It is the busiest Amtrak station in Texas, by ridership.

History

Fort Worth Central Station opened on December 12, 2001 as the Fort Worth Intermodal Transportation Center (ITC). Prior to the ITC's opening, transit services operated independently without a unified hub in downtown Fort Worth: formerly the Trinity Metro bus lines converged at a

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along the one-way couplet corridor of Houston Street and Throckmorton Street, and the Amtrak and Greyhound Lines were served by the former Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad Passenger Station. Fort Worth Central Station is located north of two former railroad stations: the Santa Fe Freight Building, built in 1938, now serving as the

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Fort Worth Education Center
and the 1889 Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad Passenger Station which was renovated and renamed Fort Worth Union Depot which served as Fort Worth's Amtrak station from 1971 to 2002 (now a party/banquet facility called Ashton Depot following a recent restoration.) On March 25, 2019, the Trinity Metro board of directors unanimously voted to rename the ITC as Fort Worth Central Station.https://www.star-telegram.com/news/traffic/honkin-mad-blog/article228436424.html

Service

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Heartland Flyer The ''Heartland Flyer'' is a daily passenger train that follows a route between Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Fort Worth, Texas. It is operated by Amtrak and jointly funded by the states of Oklahoma and Texas. The train's daily round-trip begins ...

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References

External links

TRE - Fort Worth ITC Station

UTA Fort Worth Education Center
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