Parking 962 spaces | Tracks 2 Opened 1856 Phone +1 888-842-7245 | |
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Location 27/31 Church Street WestBrampton, OntarioCanada Address 31 Church St W, Brampton, ON L6X 1H2, Canada Similar Bramalea GO Station, Mount Pleasant GO Station, Brampton Downtown Terminal, Port Credit GO Station, Union Station | ||
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.
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History
Brampton station opened in 1856 as a part of the Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) line between Toronto and London. The current station building was built in 1907.
The GTR was acquired by the Canadian National Railway (CN) in 1923, then in 1977 CN's passenger rail division was transferred to Via Rail.
GO Transit began serving the station in 1974 with the creation of the Georgetown line (now Kitchener Line).
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.
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.
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.