Erindale GO Station

Erindale GO Station is a GO Transit railway station on the Milton line in the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada. It is located at 1320 Rathburn Road West, just east of the Credit River near the community of Erindale in Mississauga, west of the Square One area.

Erindale
Location1320 Rathburn Road W.
Mississauga, Ontario
Coordinates43°34′01″N 79°40′00″W
Owned byMetrolinx
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks3
Connections MiWay[1]
Construction
Structure typeBrick station building and elevators to platforms and multi-storey car park
Parking770 spaces
Disabled accessYes
Other information
Station codeGO Transit: ER
Fare zone40
History
Opened27 October 1981
Services
Preceding station GO Transit Following station
Streetsville
towards Milton
 Milton Cooksville
towards Union Station

Like many other GO stations, Erindale does offer parking facilities, and has a station building which houses ticket sales and includes a waiting room.

Erindale acted as a terminus for the midday trains that GO Transit once operated on the Milton Line during the early to mid-1990s, but these trains no longer run.

Although ridership on the Milton line has grown beyond GO's expectations, it is not possible to run more trains, because the tracks are already busy with Canadian Pacific Railway freight traffic. In order to increase capacity, GO has extended the platforms to accommodate trains with twelve carriages rather than the previous ten.

Multi-storey parking structure

Erindale was most recently upgraded and is now fully wheel chair accessible.

A construction project underwent a new multi-level covered parking structure with 1700 new spaces, new bus loop, dedicated pedestrian pathways, and covered pedestrian bridge to the station tracks. The project was completed in the spring of 2014.

Connecting buses
MiWay
  • 20 Rathburn via City Centre Transit Terminal to Islington (TTC).[2]
  • 6 Credit Woodlands (on Burnhamthorpe Road)
  • 9 Rathburn-Thomas (on Rathburn Road)
  • 26 Burnhamthorpe (on Burnhamthorpe Road)
  • 37 Creditview-Erindale GO
  • 38/38A Creditview (on Creditview Road)
GO Transit
  • 21 Milton/Toronto[3]

Credit Valley Railway station
The CVR station in 1910

When the Credit Valley Railway opened in 1879, it built a station on Erindale Station Road, about a kilometre east of the current GO Transit facility. (The Credit Valley Railway was absorbed by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1884.) With the decline of passenger traffic on the line, the old Erindale station was demolished in the 1950s.[4]

References
  1. "Erindale GO" (PDF). Terminal & Station Maps. MiWay. 27 April 2015. Retrieved May 22, 2015.
  2. MiWay (September 2, 2013). "20 Rathburn, Monday-Sunday Service" (PDF). MiWay. Retrieved January 4, 2014.
  3. "21 Milton GO Train and Bus Schedule" (PDF). GO Transit. Retrieved February 22, 2019.
  4. "Erindale Station (Credit Valley Railway)". Railways in Mississauga. Heritage Mississauga. Archived from the original on October 6, 2015. Retrieved May 4, 2013.

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