Owned by Metrolinx Parking 1,041 spaces Opened 23 May 1967 Owner Metrolinx Tracks 2 | Structure type Station building Bicycle facilities Yes Province Ontario Platforms in use 2 | |
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Location 6251 Lawrence Ave. E.
Scarborough, Ontario
Canada Connections TTC buses
Durham Region Transit Address Toronto, ON M1C 5G5, Canada Similar Guildwood GO Station, Pickering GO Station, Lincolnville GO Station, Eglinton GO Station, Bramalea GO Station | ||
Rouge Hill is a GO Transit train and bus station on the Lakeshore East line. The station is located on the shore of Lake Ontario in West Rouge in the former municipality of Scarborough, the most easterly neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is a major commuter transfer point, with large parking lots and local bus services. It is the last station in Toronto before the trains enter Durham Region.
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History
The earliest Port Union Station was situated at Port Union Road, about half a kilometre west of the current location. The Grand Trunk Railway opened the station in 1856 on its Toronto-Montreal mainline, in what was then the small ship building and fishing village of Port Union.
In the days of the steam locomotive, freight trains needed assistance to climb from lake level over the Scarborough Bluffs. Port Union was the easterly end of this helper service with a siding that ran behind the station for waiting locomotives, and a water tower and fuel tanks to resupply westbound trains. With the advent of diesel-electric power those facilities were no longer required and Canadian National Railway subsequently replaced the station with a utilitarian brick building.
A spur line branched off to service the Johns Manville plant which lay on the west side of Port Union Road on the south side of Lawrence Avenue down to the railway line.
Inspection of the CN station found that insufficient space was available there for parking and vehicle access from Port Union Road was poor. A triangle of land could be obtained 500 metres to the east, on the south side of Lawrence Avenue, that would provide enough space for parking and a bus loop with direct access from the street. When construction of the new GO Train facilities commenced, this was the site chosen for the Premier of Ontario, John Robarts to ceremonially turn the first sod.