Brampton GO Station

Brampton

Via Rail and GO Transit station

Location

27/31 Church Street West
Brampton, Ontario
Canada

Coordinates

43°41′13″N 79°45′53″W / 43.68694°N 79.76472°WCoordinates: 43°41′13″N 79°45′53″W / 43.68694°N 79.76472°W

Owned by

Metrolinx (station)
Canadian National Railway (tracks)

Platforms

2 side platforms

Tracks

Connections

Downtown Brampton Terminal

Construction

Parking

962 spaces

Disabled access

Yes

Other information

Station code

GO Transit: BRGO

Fare zone

History

Opened

1856

Rebuilt

1907 (GTR)
2011 (GOT)

Services

Preceding station		Via Rail	Following station
Georgetown toward Sarnia		Sarnia–Toronto	Malton toward Toronto
GO Transit
Mount Pleasant toward Kitchener		Kitchener	Bramalea toward Union Station
	Former services
Amtrak
Georgetown toward Chicago		International Limited	Malton toward Toronto

Heritage Railway Station (Canada)

Designated

1992

Reference no.

4567

Brampton GO Station is a railway station served by GO Transit and Via Rail, located at 27 Church Street West in downtown Brampton, Ontario, Canada. It is directly connected to the Downtown Brampton Terminal which serves GO Transit and Brampton Transit buses.

History

Brampton station circa 1910

Brampton station opened in 1856 as a part of the Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) line between Toronto and London.^[1] The current station building was built in 1907.^[2]

The GTR was acquired by the Canadian National Railway (CN) in 1923,^[3] then in 1977 CN's passenger rail division was transferred to Via Rail.^[4]

GO Transit began serving the station in 1974 with the creation of the Georgetown line (now Kitchener Line).^[5]

A new second platform on the south side of the tracks was built in early 2011 featuring a covered section, improved lighting and security systems as well as an automatic snow melting system. Previously only the north track had been accessible to passenger trains.

In July 2014 Metrolinx (GO Transit) purchased the station from CN for $2.5 Million.^[6]

Overview

The station is wheelchair accessible and the building houses a waiting room and ticket sales. The train station is connected by a passenger tunnel to the Downtown Brampton Bus Terminal on the south side.

With growing commuter ridership, the station's parking lot is operating over its designed capacity, and cannot be extended because of its downtown location. Mount Pleasant GO Station opened in early 2005 to take some of the pressure off this station.

The trackage between Bramalea and Georgetown is still owned by Canadian National and it is part of the railway's primary freight line across Ontario. This limits the number of passenger trains that can operate through Brampton.

Services

The GO Transit Kitchener line trains operate between Toronto Union Station and Kitchener, with most trips terminating in Mount Pleasant or Georgetown. As of 2015, the line operates with up to 3 trains per hour in the peak direction, and one train per hour on weekdays mid-day.

Via Rail Corridor intercity trains operate west to Stratford, London, and Sarnia, and east to Toronto Union Station.

Between 1982 and 2004, Brampton was an intermediate stop on the International Limited, a joint Via Rail and Amtrak service between Chicago and Toronto.^[7]

The Downtown Brampton Terminal serves GO buses to Yorkdale and York Mills stations in Toronto, Orangeville and Guelph, as well as Brampton Transit local buses.

References

↑ City of Brampton. "Brampton History". Retrieved 12 October 2015.
↑ Historic Places. "Former Canadian National Railways (VIA Rail/GO Transit) station". Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
↑ The Canadian Encyclopedia. "Canadian National Railways". Retrieved 12 October 2015.
↑ Via Rail. "Building the Canadian railway". Retrieved 12 October 2015.
↑ Daniel Garcia and Sean Marshall. "GO Transit's Kitchener Line". Transit Toronto. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
↑ "Metrolinx acquires CN station in Brampton". Brampton Guardian. 17 July 2014. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
↑ 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)

External links

Media related to Brampton GO Station at Wikimedia Commons

GO Transit station page for Brampton GO Station

Via Rail station page for Brampton GO Station

GO Transit

Lakeshore West line	Union Exhibition Mimico Long Branch Port Credit Clarkson Oakville Bronte Appleby Burlington Aldershot Hamilton West Harbour Confederation ^† Grimsby ^† St. Catharines ^‡ Niagara Falls ^‡

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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