Lakeshore West line

Lakeshore West
GO Train westbound past Sunnyside in Toronto
Overview
Type	Commuter rail
System	GO Train
Stations	Hamilton Aldershot Burlington Appleby Bronte Oakville Clarkson Port Credit Long Branch Mimico Exhibition Toronto Union Station
Daily ridership	52,230 (2008)
Website	Table 01
Operation
Opened	May 23, 1967
Owner	Canadian National Railway Canadian Pacific Railway
Operator(s)	GO Transit
Technical
Line length	63.2 kilometres (39.3 mi)
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Standard gauge
Operating speed	150 km/h (93 mph)
Route map Legend VIA Rail/Amtrak Maple Leaf service 130 Niagara Falls Via QEW Niagara Escarpment Welland Canal 406 Overpass Twelve Mile Creek 111 St. Catharines Via Jordan Harbour Grimsby Via only Hamilton Yard 63.2 Hamilton GO Centre Hunter St. Tunnel 60.0 Desjardins Canal 59.9 Hamilton Jct. 55.7 Aldershot Via QEW Underpass 52.5 Burlington Jct. 51.5 Burlington 44.9 Appleby 41.5 Bronte Creek 39.8 Bronte Sixteen Mile Creek 34.4 Oakville Via 26.9 Clarkson 21.2 Credit River 20.6 Port Credit 15.4 Long Branch Willowbrook Yard 10.8 Mimico 9.2 Gardiner Underpass 8.2 Humber River 3.2 Exhibition Milton, Georgetown   and Barrie lines North Bathurst Yard 0 Union Via/TTC Lakeshore East, Stouffville   and Richmond Hill lines Station with all-day service Station with rush hour/limited service Maintenance yard TTC subway Via - Via Rail Canada station TTC - TTC subway connection

Lakeshore West is one of the seven train lines of the GO Transit system under Metrolinx in the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada. It extends from Union Station in Toronto to Hamilton, with summer weekend and holiday limited stop service extending to Niagara Falls which started in June 2009.

Only eight rush hour trains run to and from Hamilton. Most other weekday, weekend, and holiday trains end at Aldershot. When trains are not running on a section of the line, buses take over. Seasonal weekend and holiday train service operates from Union Station in Toronto to Niagara Falls, with stops in Port Credit, Oakville, Burlington and St. Catharines during the summer and early autumn.

The Lakeshore West line is the oldest of GO's services, opening as part of the then-unified Lakeshore line on GO's first day of operations, May 23, 1967. The first train left at 4:50 am from Oakville bound for Toronto, ten minutes before service began out of Pickering on its sister line to the East.

Work was recently completed to add a third track between Sixteen Mile creek and the Port Credit station. Combined with additional work undertaken since the early nineties, this gives the Lakeshore West line at least three tracks from Union Station through to Bayview Junction.

Future Expansion

In the 2008 Metrolinx report entitled "The Big Move", the agency identified an express all-day service between Hamilton and Oshawa (via Toronto Union) as one of its top 15 priorities. The project will include the construction of a new train station on James Street North in Hamilton.^{[citation needed]} As of June 29, 2010, no funding has been secured for this expansion.

Connections

The Lakeshore West line makes connections with:

• Burlington Transit
• Hamilton Street Railway
• MiWay
• Niagara Falls Transit (seasonal)
• Niagara Region Transit (seasonal)
• Oakville Transit
• St. Catharines Transit (seasonal)
• Toronto Transit Commission

External links

• GO Transit: Lakeshore GO Train & Bus Service
• GO Transit: Lakeshore GO Train & Bus Service Schedule (PDF)