Rouge Hill GO Station

Rouge Hill

Location

6251 Lawrence Ave. E.
Scarborough, Ontario
Canada

Coordinates

43°46′49″N 79°07′50″W / 43.78028°N 79.13056°WCoordinates: 43°46′49″N 79°07′50″W / 43.78028°N 79.13056°W

Owned by

Metrolinx

Platforms

2 side platforms

Tracks

Connections

TTC buses

Durham Region Transit

Construction

Structure type

Station building

Parking

1,041 spaces

Bicycle facilities

Yes

Disabled access

Yes

Other information

Station code

GO Transit: ROGO

Fare zone

History

Opened

23 May 1967

Services

Preceding station		GO Transit		Following station
Guildwood toward Union Station		Lakeshore East		Pickering toward Oshawa

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.

History

Looking east at Port Union Village and the Grand Trunk Railway station

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.^[1]

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^[2] 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.^[3]

Connecting bus routes

Toronto Transit Commission

Main article: List of Toronto Transit Commission bus routes

38 Highland Creek - to Scarborough Centre TTC station via University of Toronto Scarborough campus.
54A Lawrence East east to Starspray Blvd. and west via Lawrence East SRT station to Eglinton subway station

54E Express peak-hour limited stop service east to Starspray Blvd. and west to Lawrence East SRT station

85A Sheppard East - to Don Mills and Sheppard-Yonge TTC stations, with some buses stopping at the Toronto Zoo.
354 Lawrence East Blue Night

Durham Region Transit

103 Glenanna Strouds connecting the Altona Forest Neighbourhood, Rosebank Rd and Glenanna Rd. Monday to Friday peak hours.

References

↑ "History of Centennial-Port Union". Toronto Neighbourhoods. Retrieved March 2014. In the 1800's, Port Union was a booming waterfront village with thriving ship building and commercial fishing industries, two hotels, a commercial wharf, and a variety of small businesses. In 1856, the Grand Trunk Railway opened a station in Port Union which added to the importance of this waterfront village. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
↑ Edward Emery and Edward Helmich (August 1972). "CNs "Brutes"" (PDF). Canadian Rail Vol.No.247. Canadian Railroad Historical Association. Retrieved March 2014. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
↑ Wilfred Sergeant (2004). "Building GO-Transit". 8: Locating the stations. HTA PRESS. Retrieved March 2014. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)

External links

Media related to Rouge Hill GO Station at Wikimedia Commons

GO Transit station page for Rouge Hill 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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