Tracks 2 + 1 bypass Platform levels 2 Phone +1 416-869-3200 Rebuilt 1996 Platforms in use 1 | Bus stands 18 Opened 1933 Province Ontario Level 2 | |
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Location 36 Hunter Street East
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada Bus operators GO Transit
Hamilton Street Railway
Greyhound Canada
Coach Canada Parking 54 reserved parking spots Address 36 Hunter St. E., Hamilton, ON L8N 3W8, Canada Similar West Harbour GO Station, Aldershot GO Station, Burlington GO Station, Oakville GO Station, Oshawa GO Station | ||
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Hamilton GO Centre is a GO Transit train and bus station located at Hunter Street East and Hughson Street South in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Unlike other GO stations, which usually connect only with local public transit buses, the centre doubles as a regional bus terminal for private intercity coach carriers including Greyhound Canada and Coach Canada.
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History
Hamilton GO Centre is an Art Deco/Streamline Moderne railway station designed by New York architects Fellheimer & Wagner. Originally planned as a large complex it was reduced in size with a 7 story office block. It opened in 1933 as the head office and the Hamilton station of the Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway (TH&B). Passenger service on the TH&B was discontinued on April 26, 1981, and the TH&B merged into the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1987, leaving the facility completely disused.
In the early 1990s, GO Transit provided service out of two facilities in Hamilton: trains were routed along the CN Grimsby subdivision to the Hamilton CNR Station 1.6 km to the north, and buses operated from an older bus station at on the northern edge of Hamilton's Central Business District at John Street North and Rebecca Street. In order to better connect GO Transit service to Hamilton's CBD, improve the interface with the Hamilton Street Railway, and consolidate train and bus services at a single site, renovations were undertaken to convert the TH&B station into the Hamilton GO Centre. The new facility, designed by Garwood-Jones & Hanham Architects, opened on April 30, 1996.
Hamilton Street Railway
Although many Hamilton Street Railway (HSR) routes stop immediately adjacent to the Hamilton GO Centre, until 2009 only Route 51 - University used the station's bus terminal. On June 28, 2009, downtown bus routes were realigned and new bus platforms inside the GO Centre become the downtown terminus points for three busy lower city routes: Route 1 - King, Route 2 - Barton and Route 3 - Cannon.
GO Transit
The GO station is the western terminus of Lakeshore West trains and GO bus routes 16, 18 and 47. Via Rail trains do not serve Hamilton, but interchange with the GO line at Aldershot Station in neighbouring Burlington.
Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway Museum
A railway museum with an interpretation centre is located on the mezzanine level.