Rochester was also a terminus for the Underground Railroad (escape route for runaway slaves).
Detroit was a terminus on the Underground Railroad, and slaves escaping to Canada were taken across in boats until the river froze each winter, then braved the walk across the ice.
"We have always prided ourselves as being the northern terminus of the Underground Railroad, so we never stop enjoying embarrassing America as inferior in race relations," said Austin Clarke, an acclaimed Canadian novelist who was born in Barbados.
London Paddington station, often shortened to simply Paddington, is a central London railway terminus and London Underground station complex in fare zone 1.
The chapel, in St. Catharines, Ontario, was a focus of Harriet Tubman's years in the city, when she lived nearby, in what was a major terminus of the Underground Railroad and center of abolitionist work.
The station was to be the southern terminus of an underground railway line planned to run from Wood Green station (now Alexandra Palace) via Finsbury Park and King's Cross and was originally to be located at the corner of Stanhope Street and Holles Street, north of the Strand.
Plans to build an underground travelator to connect the London terminus of High Speed Two (HS2) with the Channel Tunnel Rail Link have been revived by the team behind the proposed £42.6bn HS2 railway.
Thus, despite it being 45 mile and over two hours travel from the City of London, Brill station became a terminus of the London Underground network.
Peripheral to London, the town has good transport links; it was first connected to central London by rail in 1885 and has a terminus of the London Underground network.
When this plan was rejected, Pearson promoted an underground railway connecting the capital's northern termini.
