Stouffville line

Stouffville
Overview
Type Commuter rail
System GO Train
Locale Greater Toronto Area
Daily ridership 15,000 (2014)[1]
Website Table 71
Operation
Opened September 7, 1982
Owner Metrolinx
Operator(s) GO Transit
Technical
Line length 49.6 kilometres (30.8 mi)
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 12 in) standard gauge
Operating speed 90 miles per hour (145 km/h) (max)
Route map
Legend
km
00.0 Downsview
0 Union Station
Finch
16.4 Union to Kennedy
2.0 Cherry St Junction
2.5 Don River
2.6 Don Valley Parkway
3.0 Eastern Avenue
3.3 Queen Street East
3.8 Dundas Street East
3.9 Logan Ave
4.1 Carlaw Avenue
4.2 Gerrard Street East
4.4 Pape Avenue Pedestrian Bridge
4.8 Jones Avenue
5.5 TTC Greenwood Yard
5.5 Greenwood Avenue
5.8
Pedestrian underpass
Monarch Park - Woodfield Road

6.2 Coxwell Avenue
7.1 Woodbine Avenue
8.1 Main Street
8.4 Danforth
9.4 Victoria Park Avenue
10.6 Warden Avenue
10.9 Danforth Avenue
11.7 Birchmount Road
4.4
pedestrian bridge
former Woodrow Avenue

12.9 Kennedy Road
13.8 Scarborough
13.8 St. Clair Avenue
14.0 Scarborough Junction
14.5 Danforth Road
14.9
pedestrian crossing with
Corvette Ave

15.2
pedestrian crossing with
Benjamin Blvd - Saugeen Cres

Warden
16.2 Freight spur (serving Golden Mile)

16.4 Kennedy
06.5 Kennedy to Agincourt
16.5 Eglinton Avenue
18.5 Lawrence East
18.5 Lawrence Avenue
18.8 Southwest Highland Creek
18.9 Freight Siding
19.0 Freight Siding
20.4 Ellesmere Road
20.4 Ellesmere
20.6 McCowan
20.6 Atlantic Packaging freight siding
20.8 Progress Avenue
20.9 West Highland Creek
21.1 West Highland Creek
21.4 Highway 401
22.1 CP Havelock line
22.2 West Highland Creek
22.6 Sheppard Avenue
22.9 Agincourt
04.5 Agincourt to Milliken
23.0
pedestrian crossing with
Marilyn Ave - Agincourt Dr

23.6 Havendale Road
24.1 Huntingwood Drive
24.8 Finch Avenue
25.4 Freight siding
25.6
former siding to
Toronto Hydro Electrical substation

26.1 McNicoll Avenue
26.8 Passmore Avenue
27.4 Milliken
Toronto
York Region

03.2 Milliken to Unionville
27.5 Steeles Avenue
28.2 Kennedy Road
28.8 Denison Street
29.6 14th Avenue
30.0
CN Toronto Bypass
former Hagerman Diamond

30.4 Highway 407
30.6 UnionvilleViva
04.4 Unionville to Centennial
30.8 Enterprise Boulevard
31.4 Rouge River
31.6 Highway 7
31.9 Eureka Street
32.1 former Unionville Station
32.2 Main Street, Unionville
32.3 Mill Stream
32.5 Bruce Creek
32.7 Kennedy Road
33.5 Eckard Creek
35.0 Centennial
01.7 Centennial to Markham
35.1 McCowan Road
35.4
36.4 Robinson Creek
36.6 Snider Drive
36.7 Markham
02.0 Markham to Mount Joy
36.8 Main St Markham
37.8 16th Avenue
38.7 Mount Joy
08.1 Mount Joy to Stouffville
38.8 Bur Oak Avenue
39.2 Castlemore Avenue
40.0 Major Mackenzie Drive
40.5 Little Rouge Creek
42.5 Elgin Mills Road
44.3 Ninth Line
44.7 19th Avenue
45.2 Reeves Way Boulevard
45.9 Hoover Park Drive
46.5
46.7 Main Street, Stouffville
46.8 Stouffville
47.1
02.8 Stouffville to Lincolnville
47.3
Stouffville Junction
Toronto and Nipissing Railway, Sutton Branch

47.0 Stouffville Creek
47.1 Millard Street
48.4 Private farm crossing
49.2 Bethesda Road
49.3 10th Line
49.6 Lincolnville
York Region
Durham Region

Uxbridge
Proposed, as part of
MoveOntario 2020 plan

Stouffville is one of the seven train lines of the GO Transit system in the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada. Its southern terminus is Union Station in Toronto, and its northern terminus is in Lincolnville in Whitchurch-Stouffville. There are bus connections from almost every station via Go Transit Buses, Toronto Transit Commission, and York Region Transit.

Trains run only during the rush hour periods with 7 trains running southbound in the morning and 8 running northbound in the afternoon and evening. One southbound and 2 northbound trains only travel as far north as Unionville with bus connections travelling the rest of the route. When trains are not running, stations are served by GO Bus route 71 which runs the corridor. However, with the exception of Union Station, it bypasses all stations within the city of Toronto.

Between Union Station and Scarborough Station, the Stouffville line shares tracks with the Lakeshore East line, but it currently does not stop at Scarborough. Effective February 2, 2015, select trains stop at Danforth GO Station as part of a year-long pilot project.[2]

History

The track was originally laid by the Toronto and Nipissing Railway, and came into operation in 1871. The T&N merged with the Midland Railway of Canada in 1882. Only two years later, the Grand Trunk Railway leased most of the lines in the area as part of a major expansion plan, and purchased them outright in 1893. The Grand Trunk would later merge with the Canadian National Railway in 1923. CN would provide passenger rail service on the line until the formation of Via Rail in 1977.

On September 7, 1982, Via service was discontinued and replacement servicethen just a single weekday runwas started by GO Transit.[3]

On 29 June 1998, GO Transit restored full service to the Lakeshore lines, and terminated service to Danforth and Scarborough on the Stouffville line—these stations were fully integrated into the Lakeshore East line route schedule.

On December 13, 2007, the government of Ontario announced funding to Metrolinx for network expansion, which included $20 million to build a second track to enable all-day two-way service between Union Station and Markham.[4] On September 2, 2008, the line's northern terminus was extended northwards from Stouffville to Lincolnville.

In April 2011 GO representatives stated that ultimately GO would like to run an all-day service on the Stouffville line, however they described this as "in the distant future".[5] As of April 2013 the Stouffville service includes six southbound morning trains and six northbound afternoon trains. Service to and from Unionville includes one additional southbound morning train and two additional northbound afternoon trains.[6] In June 2013 GO held a first "Public Information Centre" of an environmental assessment study for expanding rail service in the Stouffville Corridor. This represented the completion of the second of five stages of work to implement expanded service, and recommended adding double track segments and other improvements between Union Station and Unionville to support increased train service levels.[7]

Stations

A list of stations on this line (in order inbound to Union):

Community Municipality Regional Mun. Fare zone Distance (km) Connections
Lincolnville Lincolnville Whitchurch-Stouffville York 74 49.6
Stouffville Stouffville 46.8
YRT Bus
Mount Joy Markham Markham 73 38.7
TTC
YRT Bus
Markham 72 36.7
TTC
YRT Bus
Centennial Unionville 35.0 TTC
YRT Bus
Unionville 71 30.6
Viva Pink
Milliken Scarborough Toronto 70 27.4 TTC
YRT Bus
Agincourt 07 22.9 TTC
Kennedy 77 16.4
TTC
Danforth Old Toronto 06 8.4
TTC
Union 02 0.0
Mainline rail interchange Amtrak

TTC

Route

The line begins at Union Station and follows the Lakeshore East line to Scarborough Junction, just east of Scarborough GO Station, with some trains stopping at Danforth Station along the way.[2] It then branches north onto the Metrolinx-owned Uxbridge Subdivision, originally the Toronto and Nipissing Railway. North of Unionville station, the route heads roughly north-east in the direction of the Lincolnville terminus.

Future expansion

Double tracking of the line from Unionville GO station to Scarborough GO is scheduled to begin in 2015. This section is proposed to become part of the SmartTrack line proposed by Toronto mayor John Tory.[8]

There are long term plans to extend service from Lincolnville to Uxbridge as GO Transit owns the line formally from CN Rail.[9] Currently Uxbridge is served by GO buses with a stop at Uxbridge Station.

On April 16, 2015, the Ontario government is working with Metrolinx to have more train service along the Stouffville line, known as GO Regional Express Rail over the next decade. During peak hours, trains would run in peak direction every 20 minutes from Lincolnville to Union Station. During off peak hours, trains would run two-way hourly service or better, from Mount Joy to Union Station and electrification will be in place from Unionville to Union Station, with trains running every 15 minutes along the electrified line.[10]

References

  1. "Regional Express Rail" (PDF). Metrolinx. 5 September 2014. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
  2. 1 2 http://www.gotransit.com/public/en/updates/schedulechanges.aspx
  3. Daniel Garcia; James Bow. "GO Transit's Stouffville Line". Transit Toronto. Retrieved February 22, 2015.
  4. Gray, Jeff (2007-12-13). "Ontario to deliver on $100-million it had promised for public transit". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2007-12-13.
  5. GO Transit outlines Stouffville’s future|date=2011-04-27|accessdate=2013-04-28
  6. Stouffville GO Train and Bus Schedule|date=2013-04-6|accessdate=2013-04-28
  7. Stouffvile Corridor Rail Service Expansion Class Environmental Assessment Study PUBLIC INFORMATION CENTRE #1|date=2013-06-18|accessdate=2014-02-16
  8. Richard Gilbert (25 February 2015). "Construction of second Stouffville track rolls forward". Daily Commercial News. Retrieved April 2015. A tender was issued earlier this month to expand and improve 17 kilometres of corridor on a section of the Stouffville line between Scarborough Junction to Unionville GO Station.
  9. http://transit.toronto.on.ca/regional/2110.shtml
  10. Ontario improving GO Transit service along all corridors

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