1. Lines and stations
    History  Future extensions  Future lines  Bolton line  Midtown corridor and Peterborough line 

2. Maintenance and storage
    Maintenance facilities  Train layovers 

3. References
    General references  Bibliography 

When GO trains began operation, they ran on tracks mostly owned the two major freight railways of Canada: Canadian National Railway (CN) and Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). Over time, GO Transit (and subsequently Metrolinx) have acquired tracks, ensuring GO Transit has control over track maintenance and expansion. Metrolinx currently owns 80% of the GO's rail corridors.^[4]

All GO Transit fares are calculated by the fare zones that the origin and destination of the trip are in, as well as by passenger category (adult, student, senior or child). GO train fares are not differentiated based whether or not buses are used for part of the trip.^[3][5]

Lines and stations

History

GO Transit rail service began on May 23, 1967, on a single rail line along Lake Ontario's shoreline.^[2]{{sfnp|Sergeant|2004|loc=  Ch.4: Buying the trains.}} GO Train service ran throughout the day from Oakville to Pickering with limited rush hour train service to Hamilton. This line, now divided as the Lakeshore East and Lakeshore West lines is the keystone corridor of GO Transit, and continued to be its only rail line for its first seven years of operation.^[2] GO's other five lines were opened between 1974 and 1982, significantly expanding the rail network from 86 to 332 kilometres long, and from 16 to 43 stations.

To that point, all of GO's rail services ran on tracks mostly owned by the two major freight railways of Canada: Canadian National Railway (CN) and Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR).^[4] in 1988, a small but significant milestone in network growth occurred when it expanded its Lakeshore East line on new track it built by itself. But following that, the network experienced two long distance extensions to southern Barrie and {{GOs|Guelph}} in 1990, only to have those extensions reversed three years later. GO did extend its Lakeshore East line again in 1995 from {{GOs|Whitby}} to {{GOs|Oshawa}}, finishing that line as it exists today.

The reach of GO's network remained relatively unchanged between 1996 and 2005. However, seven new infill stations were opened along the Bradford and Stouffville lines. This coincided with GO's initial purchases of the rail corridors it operated on, taking ownership of the entire Stouffville line past Scarborough station, and most of the Barrie line north of the Toronto border. In addition, GO took control of the critical Union Station Rail Corridor, which all GO trains on all lines used. By the end of 2005, GO owned over a third of its rail network.

From 2007 to 2017, GO's network saw six extensions, requiring the Bradford line to be renamed as the "Barrie line", and the Georgetown line to "Kitchener line." These long distance extensions, along with the other extensions on the Lakeshore West, Richmond Hill and Stouffville lines, expanded GO's network length by 29%. Six critical corridor purchases were also made, tripling its length of owned corridors and bringing its ownership percentage to over 80%. Finally, 10 new stations were added, one of which coincided with the opening of the Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension, creating a new interchange between GO and the TTC subway.

Future extensions

• Lakeshore East to Bowmanville
• Lakeshore West to Niagara Falls (Partially open as of January 7th, 2019)^[6]
• Richmond Hill to Bloomington

Future lines

Bolton line

GO Transit rail service to Bolton was first proposed by the Ontario government under the MoveOntario 2020 plan in June 2007.^[7] It was subsequently carried over to The Big Move, where it was placed on the 15-year plan.^[8] In November 2010, Metrolinx completed a feasibility study that focused on utilization of Canadian Pacific Railway's Mactier subdivision, which runs from the West Toronto Diamond in Toronto northward to Bolton. Four different service alternatives were assessed to determine the best method to carry passengers into Toronto from the Mactier subdivision, and the preferred option was to direct trains east-west along CN's Halton subdivision, and north-south again along GO Transit's existing Barrie line. This would provide four new stations in the communities of Woodbridge and Kleinburg in the City of Vaughan, and Bolton in the Town of Caledon, and also use the existing Downsview Park station before terminating at Union.^[7]

The feasibility study estimated that minimum infrastructure costs were $160 million for peak direction rush-hour service, and resulting ridership was forecasted to be 2,391, 2,884, and 4,388 in 2015, 2021, and 2031, respectively, in the morning peak period. If service was increased for two-way all-day service, total costs increased to $210 million, and ridership was forecasted to be 6,074, 7,324, and 11,146 in 2015, 2021, and 2031, respectively. Metrolinx determined that the projected ridership did not justify the costs, and downgraded the Bolton line from the 15- to the 25-year plan on February 14, 2013, when amendments were made to The Big Move.^[9][10]

Midtown corridor and Peterborough line

The Midtown corridor refers to three new GO Transit services in The Big Move. The first is a Crosstown line from Dundas Street to the former CPR North Toronto and Leaside stations in Toronto. The second and third segments would extend east from North Toronto and/or {{GOs|Union}}: the Seaton line to Seaton, and the Locust Hill line to Locust Hill.^[11]

GO Transit has contemplated a Midtown corridor since the 1980s as a contingency plan once capacity at Union Station became constrained, making North Toronto an alternate station for Downtown Toronto. The major barrier to these plans, however, is the fact that the Midtown corridor is composed of existing rail lines owned and actively used by the CPR as its main freight line between Ottawa, Montreal, London and Windsor. CPR has been reluctant to provide capacity to GO Transit on its tracks, and the Milton line (which runs along CPR tracks to the west) only came after considerable negotiations, and an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars.^[12]

All three lines in the corridor were listed under the 15-year plan of The Big Move upon its publication in 2008.^[11] However the Havelock line was moved to the 25-year plan on February 14, 2013, because of "very modest ridership potential and significant infrastructure and operational challenges related to the Agincourt rail yards."^[13]

Maintenance and storage

Maintenance facilities

GO Transit is currently constructing the Whitby Rail Maintenance Facility, along the Lakeshore East line. It will be the second rail maintenance facility and will be {{convert|500000|ft2|m2|order=flip|abbr=on}}, more than twice the size of Willowbrook. It will include two progressive maintenance bays, repair shops for 11 coaches and 12 locomotives, two washing stations and storage tracks for 13 trains.^[15] The facility is required to handle service expansions, which include the GO Transit Regional Express Rail program.^[16]

Train layovers

References

General references

• {{cite web|url=http://transit.toronto.on.ca/gotransit/2100.shtml |title=Regional Transit Routes - Transit Toronto |accessdate=15 June 2011 |last1=Garcia |first1=Daniel |last2=Bow |first2=James |last3=Marshall |first3=Sean |last4=Drost |first4=Peter |date=November 10, 2006}}
  • Part of collection: Lakeshore, Georgetown, Richmond Hill, Milton, Bradford, Stouffville corridors, and GO ALRT
  • {{cite web |url=http://transit.toronto.on.ca/regional/2106.shtml |title=GO Transit's Future Midtown Line |author= Daniel Garcia and James Bow |date= |work= |publisher=Transit Toronto |accessdate=30 December 2015}}
• {{cite web | title = The Big Move | publisher = Metrolinx | year = 2008 | url = http://www.metrolinx.com/thebigmove/Docs/big_move/TheBigMove_020109.pdf | accessdate = 22 April 2015 }}
  • {{cite web | title = Approved Changes to The Big Move | publisher = Metrolinx | date = 14 February 2013 | url = http://www.metrolinx.com/en/regionalplanning/bigmove/The_Big_Move_Approved_Changes_EN.pdf | accessdate = 8 December 2015 }}

Bibliography

• {{cite web |url=http://historicaltextarchive.com/books.php?action=nextpre&bid=63 |title=Building GO-Transit: The Rail Commuter Initiative of The Government of Ontario & Canadian National Railways, People in the project 1965–1969 |first=Wilfred |last=Sergeant |year=2004 |publisher=HTA PRESS |location=Starkville, MS |ref=harv}}

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