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(The following appeared on the Fort Worth Star-Telegram website on August 31, 2010.)

FORT WORTH, Texas — Normal passenger rail service was restored to the Trinity Railway Express at 2:30 p.m. today (Tuesday), about 36 hours after a freight train derailment on a Union Pacific Railroad line disrupted service at two downtown Fort Worth train stations.

“Repairs have been completed to the TRE track …,” Fort Worth Transportation Authority spokeswoman Joan Hunter said in a 2:30 p.m. statement. the first train from Dallas to Fort Worth’s T&P Station should arrive at 2:50 p.m. today, she said. The first eastbound train will depart T&P for Dallas at 3:43 p.m.