Grand Central Terminal goes by many names, including Grand Central, the Terminal, and GCT. Just don't call us “Grand Central Station”—that refers to the US Post Office down the street or the subway station below.
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In 1871, the magnate Cornelius Commodore Vanderbilt created Grand Central Depot for the New York Central & Hudson River, New York and Harlem Railroad, and New Haven railroads. Due to rapid growth, the depot was reconstructed and renamed Grand Central Station by 1900.
Grand Central Terminal is located at 89 E 42nd Street (corner of Park Avenue), about two miles from New York Penn Station. Options for transferring between the stations are provided below.
However, when the third and final Grand Central was built, it became the final stop—all railroad lines terminated at 42nd Street—making it a “terminal” not a “station,” and giving the building its new name.
Both are structures that contain platforms or ramps where people and goods can be loaded onto trains. Terminals allow travel in only one direction eg.either into or away from the platform.Stations are structures that allow loading and the train can proceed in either direction.
The Penn Stations in New York City, Newark, New Jersey, and Baltimore are remnants of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's network, says Travis Harry, director of museum operations at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, a Smithsonian Affiliate.
Pennsylvania Station (also known as New York Penn Station or simply Penn Station) is the main intercity railroad station in New York City and the busiest transportation facility in the Western Hemisphere, serving more than 600,000 passengers per weekday as of 2019.
At the entrance to Grand Central Terminal on 42nd and Park Avenue, sitting atop Cornelius Vanderbilt's “temple to transportation,” a trio of statues represent Mercury, Hercules and Minerva — the Greek gods of speed, strength and intellect.
Moynihan Train Hall houses the main Amtrak and Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) boarding concourse, while Penn Station houses the NJ TRANSIT concourse. The Moynihan Train Hall / New York Penn Station complex is readily accessible from more than a dozen lines of the New York City subway (MTA).
In the early 1990s, U.S. senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan began championing a plan to rebuild a replica of the historic Penn Station, in which he had shined shoes during the Great Depression. He proposed rebuilding the station in the Farley Post Office building.
Moynihan Train Hall houses the main Amtrak and Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) boarding concourse, while Penn Station houses the NJ TRANSIT concourse. The Moynihan Train Hall / New York Penn Station complex is readily accessible from more than a dozen lines of the New York City subway (MTA).
Grand Central Terminal (GCT) is a station located on 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It is commonly known as Grand Central Station.
Worldwide. The world's busiest passenger station, with a passenger throughput of 3.5 million passengers per day (1.27 billion per year), is Shinjuku Station in Tokyo.
The world's longest station platform is at Hubbali Junction in India at 1,507 metres (4,944 ft). The Appalachian Trail station or Benson station in the United States, at the other extreme, has a platform which is only long enough for a single bench.