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On September 21, 1970 all New York–Boston trains except the Turboservice were rerouted into Penn Station from Grand Central; [citation needed] the Turboservice moved on February 1, 1971 for cross-platform transfers to the Metroliners.
Grand Central Terminal was named by and for the New York Central Railroad, which built the station and its two predecessors on the site. It has "always been more colloquially and affectionately known as Grand Central Station", the name of its immediate predecessor [ 6 ] [ 7 ] that operated from 1900 to 1910.
The contract was for the construction of four railroad platforms and eight tracks for the new Grand Central Terminal. [64] The first tracks inside the 63rd Street Tunnel were laid in September 2017. [65] The pre-cast platforms inside Grand Central Terminal were completed in May 2018, followed by the completion of the tracks in August 2018.
Grand Junction wharves in East Boston. The Grand Junction Railroad was chartered in 1847 as a reincorporation of the 1846 Chelsea Branch Railroad, meant to connect the lines north and west of Boston. The first section, from East Boston to Somerville, opened in 1849, and the extension to the B&W in Allston opened in 1856.
A ramp to the New Haven would have permitted NYW&B trains to run directly to Grand Central: provisions for such a ramp were designed into the overpass, but no track connection was constructed. The NH would have discouraged running trains into Grand Central, since it paid a rental fee to the NYC for each movement into the terminal.
Grand Central Depot, built in 1871, served as the southern terminus of NYC's Harlem and Hudson Divisions; it would be replaced by Grand Central Station in 1900, and by Grand Central Terminal in 1913. [19] The Boston and Albany came under the ownership of NYC in 1914. [citation needed]