Scarborough GO Station

Scarborough

Location

3615 St. Clair Avenue East
Scarborough, Ontario^[1]
Canada

Coordinates

43°43′01″N 79°15′17″W / 43.71694°N 79.25472°WCoordinates: 43°43′01″N 79°15′17″W / 43.71694°N 79.25472°W

Owned by

Metrolinx

Platforms

1 side and 1 island platform

Tracks

3 + 1 bypass

Connections

TTC buses

Construction

Parking

626 spaces^[1]

Bicycle facilities

6 lockers^[1]

Disabled access

Yes

Other information

Station code

GO Transit: SCGO

Fare zone

History

Opened

23 May 1967

Services

Preceding station		GO Transit		Following station
Danforth toward Union Station		Lakeshore East		Eglinton toward Oshawa

Scarborough GO Station is a train station in the GO Transit network^[1] located in Scarborough, a district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is now only a stop on the Lakeshore East line although Stouffville line trains had stopped both here and at Danforth until the mid-1990s, but they now bypass both of those stations.

The station is located south of St. Clair Avenue, just west of Midland Avenue, at the end of Reeve Avenue. A footpath connects the community through Natal Park, from the southwest end of the parking lot. Elevator construction was completed in mid-February 2010 making the station fully accessible.

History

Scarborough Junction railway station had been located northeast of St. Clair Avenue on the west side of Midland Avenue, where the GO Transit Stouffville line now branches off to the north on what was previously the CN Uxbridge Subdivision. This has given the name of Scarborough Junction to the neighbourhood.

For many reasons the old location near the junction was not suitable for a new commuter station, including its proximity to the grade crossings of St. Clair Avenue and Midland Avenue. The station had to be clear of the junction on the south side of St. Clair Avenue where there was also space available for a parking lot. When it opened in 1967 access to the station was directly from the St. Clair Avenue sidewalk to the ends of the platforms.^[2]

Connecting transit

The only Toronto Transit Commission bus routes that stop beside the station, on St. Clair Avenue at Laurel Avenue, are 9 Bellamy and 102 Markham Rd but nearby routes 12 Kingston Rd, 16 McCowan, 20 Cliffside and 113 Danforth also qualify for a transfer to continue your trip with the TTC Times Two with GO Transit plan.^[3]

References

1 2 3 4 "Scarborough GO Station— TRAIN STATION". GO Transit. Retrieved March 2014.
↑ Wilfred Sergeant (2004). "Building GO-Transit". 8: Locating the stations. HTA PRESS. Retrieved March 2014.
↑ "TTC Times Two with GO Transit". Toronto Transit Commission. Retrieved March 2014. If you ride the TTC immediately before and after a GO Train/Bus trip, you can use the TTC transfer from your first TTC ride to board the second TTC vehicle

External links

Media related to Scarborough GO Station at Wikimedia Commons

GO Transit station page for Scarborough 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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