Station
The station was served by two single-track tubes connected by a loop to speed train movements. The loop included five tracks and 3 platforms (2 center island and one side) and is somewhat similar to the current arrangement. By 1914, passenger volume at the Hudson Terminal had reached 30,535,500 annually. Volume nearly doubled by 1922, with 59,221,354 passengers that year at the Hudson Terminal.
The terminal opened with its first train service on July 19, 1909 (marking the first use of the Downtown Hudson Tubes), and it closed in 1971, when the WTC PATH station opened. The station was located at Church Street east of the current PATH terminal. The last remnant of the station, a cast-iron tube in the slurry wall of the site's foundation, was demolished in 2008.
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