Burlington GO Station

For other uses, see Burlington Station (disambiguation).

Burlington

Location

2101 Fairview St.
Burlington, Ontario
Canada

Coordinates

43°20′27″N 79°48′34″W / 43.34083°N 79.80944°WCoordinates: 43°20′27″N 79°48′34″W / 43.34083°N 79.80944°W

Owned by

Metrolinx

Platforms

2 island platforms

Tracks

Connections

Burlington Transit

Construction

Structure type

Station building

Parking

2,273 spaces

Bicycle facilities

Rack

Disabled access

Yes

Other information

Station code

GO Transit: BUGO

Fare zone

History

Opened

1854 (GWR)

Rebuilt

1980 (relocation)

Services

Preceding station		GO Transit		Following station
Aldershot toward Aldershot or Hamilton		Lakeshore West		Appleby toward Union Station
St. Catharines toward Niagara Falls		Lakeshore West Niagara branch		Oakville toward Union Station

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.

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,^[1] 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^[2] known as Burlington Junction. Coords:43°20′11″N 79°48′59″W / 43.33639°N 79.81639°W / 43.33639; -79.81639

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.^[3]

GO Transit rush hour service was launched in 1967 and the new station location opened in 1980, with the old station renamed Burlington West.^[1] Via Rail service, which followed to the GO Station in 1988,^[3] 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.^[4]

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.^[5]

Connecting transit

Burlington Transit routes connect on the north side of the tracks.^[6]

1 Plains-Fairview
2 Brant
6 Headon Forest
8 Industrial
10 New
12 Upper Middle

GO Transit bus route

12 Niagara Falls

References

1 2 Analytica Associates. "Via Rail Station, Burlington Ontario" (PDF). Railway Station Report. Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. Retrieved August 2015. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
↑ "Hamilton and Northwestern Railway". The Canada Year Book, 1879. Statistics Canada. Retrieved August 2015. Connections made at Burlington with G't Western R'y (Toronto Branch) Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
1 2 "History & Architecture". Freeman Station. Friends of Freeman Station. Retrieved August 2015. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
↑ "Freeman Station Relocation". City of Burlington. Retrieved August 2015. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
↑ "Modernizing Stations – Burlington GO Station". GO Transit. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
↑ "Burlington GO Station" (PDF). GO Location Maps. City of Burlington. Retrieved August 2015. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)

External links

Media related to Burlington GO Station at Wikimedia Commons

GO Transit station page for Burlington GO Station

GO Transit

Lakeshore West line	Union Exhibition Mimico Long Branch Port Credit Clarkson Oakville Bronte Appleby Burlington Aldershot Hamilton West Harbour Confederation ^† Grimsby ^† St. Catharines ^‡ Niagara Falls ^‡

Milton line	Union Kipling Dixie Cooksville Erindale Streetsville Meadowvale Lisgar Milton

Kitchener line	Union Liberty Village ^† Bloor St Clair ^† Mount Dennis ^† Weston Etobicoke North Malton Bramalea Brampton Mount Pleasant Georgetown Acton Guelph Breslau ^† Kitchener (Kitchener Central ^†)

Barrie line	Union Spadina ^† Lansdowne ^† Caledonia ^† York University (Downsview Park ^†) Rutherford Maple Kirby ^† King City Aurora Mulock ^† Newmarket East Gwillimbury Bradford Innisfil ^† Barrie South Allandale Waterfront

Richmond Hill line	Union Oriole Old Cummer Langstaff Richmond Hill Gormley Bloomington ^†

Stouffville line	Union Danforth Kennedy Lawrence East ^† Agincourt Finch East ^† Milliken Unionville Centennial Markham Mount Joy Stouffville Lincolnville

Lakeshore East line	Union Danforth Scarborough Eglinton Guildwood Rouge Hill Pickering Ajax Whitby Oshawa Thornton's Corners ^† Oshawa Central ^† Darlington ^† Bowmanville ^†

Union Pearson Express	Union Bloor Weston Pearson Airport

Bus terminals	Ajax Barrie Bramalea Brampton Erin Mills Finch Kitchener McMaster Newmarket Oshawa Renforth Gateway ^† Richmond Hill Centre Scarborough Centre Square One Union Winston Churchill ^† Yorkdale York Mills

Miscellaneous	History Fares Park and ride Infrastructure Willowbrook Yard Bombardier BiLevel Coach MPI MP40PH-3C GO-ALRT Bus routes

See also	Metrolinx Presto card The Big Move

† - Future station ‡ - Limited excursion train service

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