Aldershot GO Station

Aldershot
Location 1199 Waterdown Road
Burlington, Ontario
Coordinates 43°18′48″N 79°51′20″W / 43.31333°N 79.85556°W / 43.31333; -79.85556Coordinates: 43°18′48″N 79°51′20″W / 43.31333°N 79.85556°W / 43.31333; -79.85556
Owned by Metrolinx
Platforms 2 side platforms, 1 island platform
Tracks 4
Connections Burlington Transit
Hamilton Street Railway
Construction
Structure type Station building with a waiting room and public washroom
Parking 1619 spaces
Bicycle facilities Yes
Disabled access Yes
Other information
Station code

Via Rail: ALDR
GO Transit: ALGO


Amtrak:AST
Fare zone 17
Services
Preceding station   Via Rail   Following station
toward Windsor
Windsor–Toronto
toward Toronto
Toronto–
New York
(Maple Leaf)
Amtrak
TerminusAldershot–Montreal
One-way operation
GO Transit
TerminusLakeshore West
rush hour
Terminus
rush hour
Terminus

Aldershot GO Station is a railway station and bus station used by Via Rail and GO Transit, located at Highway 403 and Waterdown Road in the Aldershot community of Burlington, Ontario, Canada.

Services

Aldershot serves Burlington on Via Rail's Quebec City-Windsor Corridor routes between Toronto and Windsor. It doubles as the Via Rail station for Hamilton, which does not have an intercity rail station of its own.

The station is also served by the joint Via-Amtrak Maple Leaf train, connecting Toronto and New York through Niagara Falls.

Aldershot is the western terminus of the Lakeshore West line train service in off-peak hours, with buses continuing on from here to Hamilton GO Centre and Brantford Bus Terminal. Six trains (four to Hamilton GO, two to West Harbour GO, in the peak direction) continue on to Hamilton during peak periods.[1]

Burlington Transit bus route 1X Plains operates through this station,[2] between Burlington GO Station and downtown Hamilton.[3] Hamilton Street Railway bus route 18 Waterdown provides peak hour, weekday service to Waterdown.[4]

History

GTR station in 1910 with the sign showing "Waterdown"

The first railway station built here was originally named Waterdown, due to its location on Waterdown Road. The Canadian Pacific Railway constructed a rail line from Guelph Junction to Hamilton in 1912 and built a station in the neighbouring town of Waterdown,[5] with the station here subsequently renamed after the community of Aldershot, where it is situated.

The Great Western Railway established the line between Niagara Falls and Toronto in 1856, with that company being purchased in 1882 by the Grand Trunk Railway which merged into the Canadian National Railway in 1920.

References

  1. ↑ Table 18 Lakeshore West GO Train and Bus Schedule
  2. ↑ Burlington Transit bus stop location at Aldershot GO station
  3. ↑ Burlington Transit: 1/1X Plains schedule
  4. ↑ "Hamilton Street Railway: 18 Waterdown schedule" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-03-10. Retrieved 2014-03-10.
  5. ↑ "July 1, 1912: The opening of the railway in Waterdown". Waterdown-East Flamborough Heritage Society. Retrieved 10 March 2014. At the beginning of the project, Waterdown was not even going to be given access to the railway – there was no station planned within the Village. Eventually there were two - Waterdown North near Parkside Drive, and Waterdown South near Dundas Street
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