Oakville GO Station

Oakville

Location

214 Cross Avenue
Oakville, Ontario
Canada

Coordinates

43°27′18″N 79°40′57″W / 43.45500°N 79.68250°WCoordinates: 43°27′18″N 79°40′57″W / 43.45500°N 79.68250°W

Platforms

1 side, 1 island platform

Tracks

Connections

GO Bus

Oakville Transit

Construction

Parking

2,724 spaces + 2 electric vehicle parking/charging stations

Bicycle facilities

Rack

Disabled access

Yes

Other information

Station code

Via Rail: OAKV
GO Transit: OKGO
Amtrak code: OKL

Fare zone

History

Opened

23 May 1967

Traffic

Passengers (2010)

13,100 (GO Train)^[1]
Ranked 2nd of 62

Services

Preceding station	Via Rail	Following station
Aldershot toward Windsor	Windsor–Toronto	Toronto Terminus
Amtrak
Aldershot toward New York City	Maple Leaf (Operated by Via Rail)	Toronto Terminus
GO Transit
Bronte toward Aldershot or Hamilton	Lakeshore West	Clarkson toward Union Station
Burlington toward Niagara Falls	Lakeshore West Niagara branch	Port Credit toward Union Station

Oakville GO Station is a railway station and bus station in the GO Transit network located at 214 Cross Avenue in Oakville, Ontario, Canada, near the Trafalgar Road exit 118 of the Queen Elizabeth Way. Via Rail's Oakville Station is located at 200 Cross Avenue, and directly accessible from GO's north platform.

It is a stop on GO's Lakeshore West line train service and, until October 2007, served as the western terminus for weekend service. On weekdays, one branch of the Highway 407 GO bus service, that connects with Sheridan College, Square One Bus Terminal, Bramalea GO Station, and York University terminates at this station, as does the Highway 403 peak-hour service, that also serves Square One, then follows Highway 401 to Yorkdale Bus Terminal, and Yonge Street to the Finch Bus Terminal. Apart from Union Station, Oakville is the busiest station in GO Transit's network by passenger volume.^[1]

Via trains from Windsor-Quebec corridor routes stop here, as does Amtrak's Maple Leaf service from New York to Toronto.

Between 2009 and 2012, improvements on the Lakeshore West line added a third mainline track requiring the demolition of the Via Rail station and the construction a new fully accessible building.^[2] Vehicular access was improved and a covered drop off and pick up area was created with more than 1,000 new parking spaces added in a new six-storey parking structure.^[3] Bus shelters are expected to be replaced with heated shelters by the spring of 2015.^[4]

New Via Rail station building

Multi-storey parking structure

History

Oakville station, circa 1920

The Grand Trunk Railway was important to the development of Oakville because it was the major transportation link for goods and people to Toronto or Hamilton, and beyond.^[5] The original Great Western Railway station was built here in 1856,^[6] on the same site as the current VIA and GO Stations.^[5] The Great Western Railway was purchased in 1882 by the Grand Trunk Railway, which was absorbed into the Canadian National Railway in 1920.

Connecting bus routes

Oakville Transit

1 Trafalgar
4 Speers-Cornwall
10 West Industrial South (peak service only)
11 Linbrook
13 West Oak Trails
14 Lakeshore West
15 Bridge
17 Kerr
18 Glen Abbey South
19 River Oaks
20 Northridge
24 South Common
26 Falgarwood
28 Glen Abbey North
110 West Industrial North (peak service only)
190 River Oaks Express (peak service only)

GO Transit

18 Lakeshore West^[7]
19 Oakville/North York^[8]
20 Milton/Oakville^[9]
46 Hwy 407 West^[10]

References

1 2 Tess Kalinowski (October 16, 2011). "Jammed GO train is 'already full by the time it gets here'". Toronto Star. Retrieved August 2012. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
↑ "Oakville Station: A Collaborative Effort". Via Rail. 20 January 2012. Retrieved May 2013. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
↑ "New parking structure now open at the Oakville GO Station". News release. Transport Canada. 19 October 2012. Retrieved May 2013. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
↑ "Modernizing Stations – Oakville GO Station". GO Transit. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
1 2 "Volume 45: Number 2" (PDF). Newsletter. Oakville Historical Society. June 2011. Retrieved March 2014. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
↑ "Oakville's Yachting Heritage". Town of Oakville. Retrieved March 2014. With the opening of the Great Western Railway from Niagara Falls to Hamilton in 1855 and to Toronto through Oakville in 1856, the steamboat interest suffered badly Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
↑ Lakeshore West GO Bus Schedule
↑ Oakville/North York GO Bus Schedule
↑ 20 Milton/Oakville GO Bus Schedule
↑ 407 West GO Bus Schedule

External links

GO Transit station page for Oakville 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

Oakville, Ontario

Neighbourhoods	Bronte Clearview College Park Eastlake Glen Abbey Iroquois Ridge North Iroquois Ridge South Old Oakville Palermo River Oaks Uptown Core West Oak Trails

Buildings and structures	Glen Abbey Golf Course Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts

Events	Downtown Oakville Jazz Festival

Politics	Oakville Town Council Regional Municipality of Halton

Media	Oakville Beaver CJMR CJYE The Weather Network

Education	Conseil scolaire de district du Centre-Sud-Ouest Conseil scolaire de district catholique Centre-Sud Halton District School Board Halton Catholic District School Board Sheridan College

Transportation	Bronte GO Station Oakville GO Station Oakville Transit

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