Georgetown GO Station

For the disused railway station in Houston, Scotland, see Georgetown railway station.

Georgetown

Location

55 Queen Street
Georgetown, Ontario

Coordinates

43°39′19″N 79°55′08″W / 43.65528°N 79.91889°WCoordinates: 43°39′19″N 79°55′08″W / 43.65528°N 79.91889°W

Owned by

GTR 1856-1923
CNR 1923-1978
VIA Rail 1978-present

Platforms

2 side platforms

Tracks

Construction

Structure type

Heritage station building^[1]

Parking

615 spaces

Bicycle facilities

Yes

Other information

Station code

GO Transit: GEGO

Fare zone

History

Opened

1858

Services

Preceding station		Via Rail	Following station
Guelph toward Sarnia		Sarnia–Toronto	Brampton toward Toronto
GO Transit
Acton toward Kitchener		Kitchener	Mount Pleasant toward Union Station
	Former services
Amtrak
Guelph toward Chicago		International Limited	Brampton toward Toronto

Heritage Railway Station (Canada)

Designated

1994

Reference no.

4622

Georgetown GO Station is a railway station served by GO Transit's Kitchener line and Via Rail's Toronto-Sarnia train. It is located west of Mountainview Road North at 55 Queen Street in Georgetown, Ontario, Canada.

History

Georgetown GTR station in 1908

The station was constructed in 1858 by the Grand Trunk Railway,^[2] designed by the GTR chief engineer Francis Thompson and built by Casimir Gzowski.^[1]

The station was acquired by Canadian National Railway when the GTR assets were transferred in 1923 and later became a VIA Rail station.^[1] GO Transit service began in 1978.

The station once had a water tower for steam trains and had platforms on both sides of the station building, with the south side now paved over for a large commuter parking lot.

The station was the terminus of the then-named Georgetown line for most of its GO Transit history, from 1978 to 1990 and 1993 to 2011. Between 1990 and 1993 and since 2011, some GO Trains have served stations further west; as of 2015 the majority of trains on the line continue to originate and terminate here.

The International Limited was operated jointly by Via Rail and Amtrak between Chicago and Toronto. The service, which had started in 1982, was discontinued in 2004.^[3]

Station facilities

The two mainline tracks are used jointly by Canadian National, Via Rail and GO Transit. On the north side of the station a yard provides four layover tracks and an island platform used for GO Train service. Via trains operate from a side platform on the south side of the station, adjacent to the station building.

The station has two parking lots. The main parking lot and station building are located on the south side of the tracks adjacent to a bus loading/unloading zone.

Ticket sales are available during peak hours with an attendant, as well as during evenings for the last few days of every month.

The station building is open during the posted GO train hours and for a half-hour before each Via train arrival.

Services

Train

GO Transit Kitchener line - Kitchener - Toronto: six trains eastbound toward Union Station in the morning and six trains westbound in the afternoon. Four trains in each direction operate the full route between Kitchener and Toronto and two operate only between Georgetown and Toronto.
Via Rail Corridor Service - Sarnia - London - Kitchener - Toronto: two daily trains in each direction, one operating the full route between Sarnia and Toronto, and the other operating only between London and Toronto.

Bus

GO Bus Route 31^[4] - Guelph - Georgetown - Brampton - Toronto
GO Bus Route 33^[4] - Guelph - Georgetown - Brampton - Yorkdale - York Mills
Halton Hills's Activan - for registered clients with a booking

References

1 2 3 http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=4622 Canada's Historic Places
↑ Georgetown Via-GO station (former Grand Trunk station) at waymarking.com
↑ Matt Melzer (23 April 2004). "http://www.trainweb.com/travelogues/mattmelzer/2004d21a.html". TrainWeb.org. Retrieved August 2015. From 1982, Amtrak and VIA Rail Canada had jointly operated the International train between Chicago and Toronto Check date values in: |access-date= (help); External link in |title= (help)
1 2 Kitchener GO Train and Bus Schedule

External links

Media related to Georgetown railway station at Wikimedia Commons

GO Transit station page for Georgetown GO Station

Via Rail station page for Georgetown GO Station

GO Transit

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Milton line	Union Kipling Dixie Cooksville Erindale Streetsville Meadowvale Lisgar Milton

Kitchener line	Union Liberty Village ^† Bloor St Clair ^† Mount Dennis ^† Weston Etobicoke North Malton Bramalea Brampton Mount Pleasant Georgetown Acton Guelph Breslau ^† Kitchener (Kitchener Central ^†)

Barrie line	Union Spadina ^† Lansdowne ^† Caledonia ^† York University (Downsview Park ^†) Rutherford Maple Kirby ^† King City Aurora Mulock ^† Newmarket East Gwillimbury Bradford Innisfil ^† Barrie South Allandale Waterfront

Richmond Hill line	Union Oriole Old Cummer Langstaff Richmond Hill Gormley Bloomington ^†

Stouffville line	Union Danforth Kennedy Lawrence East ^† Agincourt Finch East ^† Milliken Unionville Centennial Markham Mount Joy Stouffville Lincolnville

Lakeshore East line	Union Danforth Scarborough Eglinton Guildwood Rouge Hill Pickering Ajax Whitby Oshawa Thornton's Corners ^† Oshawa Central ^† Darlington ^† Bowmanville ^†

Union Pearson Express	Union Bloor Weston Pearson Airport

Bus terminals	Ajax Barrie Bramalea Brampton Erin Mills Finch Kitchener McMaster Newmarket Oshawa Renforth Gateway ^† Richmond Hill Centre Scarborough Centre Square One Union Winston Churchill ^† Yorkdale York Mills

Miscellaneous	History Fares Park and ride Infrastructure Willowbrook Yard Bombardier BiLevel Coach MPI MP40PH-3C GO-ALRT Bus routes

See also	Metrolinx Presto card The Big Move

† - Future station ‡ - Limited excursion train service

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