Cotton Belt Rail Line
| Cotton Belt Rail Line | |||
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| Overview | |||
| Type | Commuter rail | ||
| System | Dallas Area Rapid Transit and Fort Worth Transportation Authority | ||
| Status | Preliminary Engineering, under construction (TEX Rail) | ||
| Locale | Tarrant, Dallas, and Collin, Texas, USA | ||
| Termini |
Shiloh Road Station to DFW Airport Station (Cotton Belt Line) DFW Airport Station to T&P Station (TEX Rail) |
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| Website |
DART Cotton Belt Rail Line, TEX Rail |
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| Operation | |||
| Owner | DART, The T | ||
| Technical | |||
| Line length | 67.7 mi (108.95 km) | ||
| Track length | 67.7 mi (108.95 km) | ||
| Track gauge | 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge | ||
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The Cotton Belt Rail Line is a planned 67.7-mile (109 km) group of commuter rail lines in Tarrant, Dallas, Collin, and Rockwall Counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The lines will provide service from Dallas's northeast suburbs to Southwest Fort Worth with a major terminal at the north end of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. The project has been broken up into several lines under development by Dallas Area Rapid Transit and the Fort Worth Transportation Authority.
Together, the corridor would connect downtown Fort Worth, Grapevine, and DFW Airport with Carrollton (at a junction with both the Denton County Transportation Authority A-train commuter rail line and DART's Green Line light rail line), Addison, Richardson, and Plano.
The current name for the line comes from a former subsidiary of the Southern Pacific Railroad, the St. Louis Southwestern Railway, commonly known as the Cotton Belt, which previously owned the line. DART purchased the right-of-way in 1990 for future transit use.
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