Brightline, the Florida rail line with stops throughout the state, is now selling tickets for its highly anticipated Orlando extension. 

The new station will be at the Orlando International Airport and connects to Miami, Aventura, Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton, and West Palm Beach, the rail company shared with Travel + Leisure on Wednesday. Service will be available starting Sept. 22 and is available to book now. Read more

This is early morning on December 13 2016. It was a bright sunny “winter” day and as you can see the Fort Lauderdale Brightline station was nearing completion.

This was the view in 2016 of the work that was being done at the Brightline Fort Lauderdale station. In the foreground is part of the platform on the south side near Broward Boulevard.

This is a look back at the Fort Lauderdale station in 2015 during the early stages of construction of the station.

This December 11 2015 photo showing the early construction of the Fort Lauderdale station of All Aboard Florida was taken from the parking garage on the south side of Broward Boulevard. At the time when approval was given for this rail project, the name was All Aboard Florida. Shortly after construction began, the name was replaced with Brightline.

Final Environmental Impact Statement

All Aboard Florida – Operations LLC (AAF) proposed to construct a privately owned and operated intercity passenger railroad system to connect Orlando and Miami, with intermediate stops in Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, Florida. AAF is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Florida East Coast Industries, Inc. (FECI), one of Florida’s oldest and largest transportation, infrastructure, and commercial real estate companies. AAF proposed to construct a new approximately 40-mile dedicated rail corridor parallel to Florida State Road 528 connecting to the existing Florida East Coast (FEC) Railway, which has supported freight and/or passenger service on a continuous basis for more than 100 years. The Project also includes infrastructure improvements to the existing FEC rail corridor between Cocoa and West Palm Beach. Continue

USA: Florida East Coast Industries Inc has announced that it is to produce an ‘investment grade’ ridership study for a $1bn privately owned, operated and maintained inter-city passenger service carrying business travellers and tourists between Miami and Orlando.

Revealing outline plans for All Aboard Florida on March 22 [2012], property and railway company FECI said the target launch date is 2014. FECI would own and operate the line, and ‘Florida’s taxpayers will have no ongoing construction or operating risks’.

The 380 km route would connect Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach and Orlando, using a 320 km route between Miami and Cocoa which belongs to FECI’s Florida East Coast Railway subsidiary. A further 60 km of new track would provide the link to Orlando. SOURCE