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Structure type
  
Station building

Province
  
Connection
  
Burlington Transit

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Connections
  
Phone
  
+1 888-438-6646

Owner
  
Metrolinx

Burlington GO Station

Location
  
2101 Fairview St.Burlington, OntarioCanada

Address
  
2101 Fairview St, Burlington, ON L7R 2C8, Canada

Similar
  
Aldershot GO Station, Appleby GO Station, Oakville GO Station, Hamilton GO Centre, Union Station

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Burlington GO Station is a railway station and bus station in the GO Transit network, located at 2101 Fairview Street in Burlington, Ontario, Canada, just south of Queen Elizabeth Way between Guelph Line and Brant Street.

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Overview

It is a stop on the Lakeshore West line train service, and was, for a time, the western terminus of the rail services. Most peak-hour and off-peak trains now terminate service at Aldershot, and a few trains link Hamilton further to the west. There is a separate connecting GO Bus serving McMaster University.

There are extensive parking facilities on both the north and south of the station. A large multi-level parking structure opened in 2008, significantly expanding the parking capacity of the station. During weekdays, Burlington Transit serves both sides of the station, connected by wheelchair accessible tunnels under the tracks.

History

The original Great Western Railway station was built in 1855, just west of Brant Street, about half a mile west of the current GO Station. With the building of the Hamilton & Northwestern Railway in 1877, this location became a connection known as Burlington Junction. Coords:43°20′11″N 79°48′59″W

The Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) purchased the Great Western Railway in 1882 and the Hamilton & Northwestern Railway/Northern Railway in 1888, and in turn was absorbed into the Canadian National Railway in 1923

That first station building burnt down in 1904 and was rebuilt in 1906.

GO Transit rush hour service was launched in 1967 and the new station location opened in 1980, with the old station renamed Burlington West. Via Rail service, which followed to the GO Station in 1988, was discontinued in 1990. All day GO Transit service commenced in 1992.

The City of Burlington acquired the 1906 historic station building in 2005. Renamed Freeman Station it had to be moved off site to allow for track improvements and with the purpose of having it restored.

Construction of a new 20,300 square feet (1,890 m2) station building began in September 2012, and is expected to be complete by the summer of 2015.

Connecting transit

Burlington Transit routes connect on the north side of the tracks.

  • 1 Plains-Fairview
  • 2 Brant
  • 6 Headon Forest
  • 8 Industrial
  • 10 New
  • 12 Upper Middle
  • GO Transit bus route

  • 12 Niagara Falls
  • References

    Burlington GO Station Wikipedia


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