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Encyclopedia > Brampton (GO Station)
GO Transit Georgetown Line
Georgetown
Mount Pleasant
Brampton
Bramalea
Malton
Etobicoke North
Weston
Bloor
Union Station
Facility Services
27 Church Street West
Brampton, Ontario
Fare zone 33
Station building yes
Wheelchair access yes
Parking spots 1044

Brampton GO Station is a GO Transit railway station on the Georgetown line, located at 27 Church Street West in downtown Brampton. GO Transit, officially known as the Greater Toronto Transit Authority (GTTA), is Canadas first, and Ontarios only, interregional public transit system, established to link Toronto with the surrounding regions of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). ... Bramalea GO Station is a GO Transit railway and bus station along the Georgetown line. ... Malton GO Station is a GO Transit Train sation along the Georgetown rail corridor. ... Etobicoke North GO Station is a GO Transit railway station on the Georgetown line. ... Bloor GO Station is a GO Transit train station along the Georgetown rail corridor. ... Union Station is a major train and subway station at 65 Front Street West between Bay Street and York Street in downtown Toronto. ... GO Transit, officially known as the Greater Toronto Transit Authority (GTTA), is Canadas first, and Ontarios only, interregional public transit system, established to link Toronto with the surrounding regions of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). ... Georgetown is one of the seven train lines of the GO Transit system in the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada. ... Brampton, Ontario is a city in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada. ...


Like many other stations on the GO Train network, Brampton is equipped with parking facilities, wheelchair-accessible train service, a station building housing a waiting room and ticket sales, a Ticket Vending Machine (TVM), and a nearby bus terminal.


GO shares this station with VIA Rail, Canada's national passenger railway. VIA runs trains westward to Guelph, Kitchener, Stratford, London, and Sarnia, and east to Toronto. VIA Rail Canada (also referred to as VIA Rail and VIA; pronounced vee-ah) is an independent Crown corporation offering intercity passenger rail services in Canada. ... Guelph (2003 population 115,872, metropolitan population 138,975) is a city located in southwestern Ontario, Canada, roughly 100 kilometres west of downtown Toronto along Ontario provincial highway 401. ... For other uses of the word Kitchener please see Kitchener (disambiguation) Map of Waterloo Regional Municipality, Ontario with Kitchener in red. ... Ontario street in the Summertime in Stratford Stratford (2001 population 50 595) is a city on the Avon River in Perth County, in southwestern Ontario, Canada. ... Motto: Nickname: The forest city City of London, Ontario, Canada Location. ... Sarnia is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada (population 70,876 in 2001). ...


Near the station is the Downtown Brampton Bus Terminal, from which GO buses run to the Yorkdale and York Mills stations in Toronto. Yorkdale is a station on the Yonge-University Spadina line of the Toronto subway. ... York Mills is a station on the Yonge-University Spadina line of the Toronto subway. ...


As GO Transit's ridership is growing, the station's current parking lot is already operating over its designed capacity, and cannot be extended because of its downtown location. A new Mount Pleasant station is being constructed to take some of the pressure off Brampton station.


There have been many requests for the all-day train service to Brampton Station, but heavy CN freight traffic and VIA Rail trains on the same tracks make it impossible at present. Missing image Canadian National Railways logo or herald (used pre-1960) Missing image Network Map of Canadian National Railway The Canadian National Railway (CN; AAR reporting marks CN, CNA, CNIS), known as Canadian National Railways (CNR) between 1918 and 1960, and Canadian National/Canadien National (CN) from 1960 to present... VIA Rail Canada (also referred to as VIA Rail and VIA; pronounced vee-ah) is an independent Crown corporation offering intercity passenger rail services in Canada. ...


External links

  • GO Transit: Brampton GO Station (http://www.gotransit.com/publicroot/station/station.asp?station=BRGO)


 
 

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