Pickering GO Station

Pickering

Location

1322 Bayly Street
Pickering, Ontario

Coordinates

43°49′50″N 79°05′06″W / 43.83056°N 79.08500°WCoordinates: 43°49′50″N 79°05′06″W / 43.83056°N 79.08500°W

Owned by

Metrolinx

Platforms

3 side platforms (train)
loop with bays (bus)

Tracks

Connections

Durham Region Transit

Construction

Structure type

Station building and tunnels and elevators to platforms

Parking

2,508 spaces

Bicycle facilities

Yes

Disabled access

Yes

Other information

Station code

GO Transit: PKGO

Fare zone

History

Opened

23 May 1967

Services

Preceding station		GO Transit		Following station
Rouge Hill toward Union Station		Lakeshore East		Ajax toward Oshawa

Pickering GO Station is a train and bus station in the GO Transit network^[1] located in Pickering, Ontario, Canada. It is a stop on the Lakeshore East line and was the eastern terminus from 1967 until 1990, when service was extended to Whitby and subsequently to Oshawa.

History

GTR station Pickering

The previous Pickering station, which had been constructed by Grand Trunk Railway in the early 1900s, had been about 2 kilometres east of the current location at Liverpool Road. Plans for the original GO Transit Lakeshore line called for commuter train service not to go beyond Liverpool Road where the CN York Subdivision tracks joined the CN Kingston Subdivision, because this would interfere with freight trains. No practical site could be found, but there was a large field south of the tracks on the east side of Liverpool Road with more than enough space to accommodate a station building, bus terminal and car parking, with convenient access from Bayly Street. Installation of a new crossover before the overpass at Liverpool Road was required to get to an existing industrial track, so that GO Trains standing at the station platform would be off the main line.^[2]

When the station opened in 1967 it was a key transfer point between train and bus services.

In 1990 the single platform was supplement by two more platforms and tracks when GO Transit built a dedicated right-of-way on the north side of the Canadian National tracks. This was part of the project to expand Lakeshore East train service to Ajax and Whitby, and finally to a new terminus at the Oshawa Via Rail station in 1995.

Station layout

Pickering has three platforms for trains, 1 and 2 which serve trains to Union and trains to Oshawa. Track 3, separated from the other tracks, is closest to the bus bays and station. Track 3 is the original track before the extension to Oshawa, which serves Express and Local trains to and from Union which terminate in Pickering.

A pedestrian walkway (to eliminate need for passengers to cross CN tracks to travel from the station to the bus terminal) was completed in 2012, and a new multi-level parking structure is being built at the station and will be completed by spring/summer 2014 with an expected capacity of 1500 new parking spaces.^[3] Exterior cladding of the bridge in a metallic mesh has proved to be problematic and, along with severe weather, has been giving the contractors trouble. It is now expected that the bridge will not be completed until the summer of 2015.^[4]

Pedestrian walkway spanning railway tracks, Highway 401, and Pickering Parkway at Pickering GO Station

Connecting bus routes

The station is the Pickering hub for Durham Region Transit local bus services, which evolved from the Bay Ridges Dial-a-Bus in 1970.

Durham Region Transit service: ^[5]

101 / 101A Industrial / Bay Ridges
103 / 103B Glenanna / Strouds
107 South Rosebank
110 / 110A / 110B Finch West
111 / 111A East Pickering
112 Brock
120 - Whites
181 / 182 Pickering Late Night Shuttle

GO Transit

98 - Pickering/Finch Express
51B - U of T Scarborough/Richmond Hill/York U, Pickering/York U Express
90B/C - Oshawa GO, Oshawa/Courtice/Bowmanville/Newcastle

References

↑ "Pickering GO Station— TRAIN & BUS STATION". GO Transit. Retrieved March 2014. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
↑ Wilfred Sergeant (2004). "Building GO-Transit". 8: Locating the stations. HTA PRESS. Retrieved March 2014. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
↑ http://www.680news.com/news/local/article/349523--sections-of-pickering-go-station-closed-for-construction
↑ Carola Vyhnak (7 February 2014). "Pickering's GO pedestrian bridge inching along". Torstar News Services. Retrieved February 2014. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
↑ "NEW Route Maps". Durham Region Transit Website. Retrieved 10 July 2016.

External links

Media related to Pickering GO Station at Wikimedia Commons

GO Transit station page for Pickering GO Station

GO Transit

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

Milton line	Union Kipling Dixie Cooksville Erindale Streetsville Meadowvale Lisgar Milton

Kitchener line	Union Liberty Village ^† Bloor St Clair ^† Mount Dennis ^† Weston Etobicoke North Malton Bramalea Brampton Mount Pleasant Georgetown Acton Guelph Breslau ^† Kitchener (Kitchener Central ^†)

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

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

Stouffville line	Union Danforth Kennedy Lawrence East ^† Agincourt Finch East ^† 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 ^†

Union Pearson Express	Union Bloor Weston Pearson Airport

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 The Big Move

† - Future station ‡ - Limited excursion train service

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