Aldershot GO Station

For the railway station in England, see Aldershot railway station.

Aldershot

Location

1199 Waterdown Road
Burlington, Ontario

Coordinates

43°18′48″N 79°51′20″W / 43.31333°N 79.85556°WCoordinates: 43°18′48″N 79°51′20″W / 43.31333°N 79.85556°W

Owned by

Metrolinx

Platforms

2 side platforms, 1 island platform

Tracks

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

Services

Preceding station	Via Rail	Following station
Brantford toward Windsor	Windsor–Toronto	Oakville toward Toronto
Amtrak
Grimsby toward New York City	Maple Leaf (Operated by Via Rail)	Oakville toward Toronto
GO Transit
Terminus	Lakeshore West	Burlington toward Union Station
Hamilton rush hour Terminus
West Harbour 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

This 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 the McMaster University Bus Terminal. Eight trains (four in each direction) continue on to Hamilton during peak hours. Some rush-hour trains terminate at Burlington GO Station and GO buses connecting to these trips stop here as well.^[1]

Aldershot serves Burlington and Hamilton on Via Rail's Quebec City-Windsor Corridor routes between Toronto and Windsor, and the joint Via-Amtrak Maple Leaf train, connecting Toronto and New York through Niagara Falls.

Burlington Transit bus route 1 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

↑ Table 15-18 Lakeshore West GO Train and Bus Schedule
↑ Burlington Transit bus stop location at Aldershot GO station
↑ Burlington Transit: 1/1X Plains schedule
↑ Hamilton Street Railway: 18 Waterdown schedule
↑ "July 1, 1912: The opening of the railway in Waterdown". Waterdown-East Flamborough Heritage Society. Retrieved 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

External links

Media related to Aldershot GO Station at Wikimedia Commons

GO Transit station page for Aldershot GO Station

GO Transit

Lakeshore West line	Union Exhibition Mimico Long Branch Port Credit Clarkson Oakville Bronte Appleby Burlington Aldershot Hamilton West Harbour Confederation ^† St. Catharines ^‡ Niagara Falls ^‡

Milton line	Union Kipling Dixie Cooksville Erindale Streetsville Meadowvale Lisgar Milton

Kitchener line	Union Bloor Mount Dennis ^† Weston Etobicoke North Malton Bramalea Brampton Mount Pleasant Georgetown Acton Guelph Kitchener

Barrie line	Union Caledonia ^† York University (Downsview Park ^†) Rutherford Maple King City Aurora Newmarket East Gwillimbury Bradford Barrie South Allandale Waterfront

Richmond Hill line	Union Oriole Old Cummer Langstaff Richmond Hill Gormley ^† Bloomington ^†

Stouffville line	Union Danforth Kennedy Agincourt 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 ^†

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 Union Pearson Express The Big Move

† - Future station ‡ - Limited excursion train service

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