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Well the good news is that it looks track-ready. What might slow it down is 1) the date CN has in mind for cutting it into their mainline and 2) the signalling commissioning date. I would assume that both those events are already scheduled and even if track laying happens tomorrow, those dates would not change. That’s just how the Class 1s operate!
I was under the impression that the current plan for Confederation GO based on recent diagrams would have the train joining the existing mainline immediately after West Harbour rather than extending the tracks all the way to Confederation. But I guess that's no longer the plan?
The current plan has the West Harbour tracks tying back into the CN mainline around the Mary Street pedestrian bridge IIRC.
Yes. There will be 4 mainline tracks from the Don River to Scarborough Station, where the Stouffville Line branches off.
There will be four tracks until the Stouffville line splits off, so the work must be for adding another track.
It may look track ready, but far from it as of March 28, New track mast, signal boxes and installing the cables for them was underway when I shot it. Until that is completed and working, tracks and switches cannot be install, It look like there still other work to be done as well.
Exactly. Warden also had a span added a few years ago, for the 3rd track that was needed to support Lakeshore all-day both-ways every 15 minutes.
Someone should remind them they had rebuilt Guildwood Station with room for a fourth track a few years ago, and then seemed to just forget.
Will GO and VIA be able to push enough service through there to bother, without a grade sep at Scarborough Junction?
we heard a few years ago that the scarborough junction isnt needed because of how they are going to aligh the tracks with service patterns. instead of having the express trains for both lines be on the inside 2 tracks and all stops being on the outside 2 tracks.
There is zero need to have the services segregated like that. And in fact, it would be detrimental to the overall capacity of the system to operate the trains like that.
Their design for the grade separation at Scarborough Junction only had three tracks continuing east on Lakeshore, with no apparent room for more, and there have been GO expansion plans in the past with four or more tracks, hence that it seems they forgot about work and plans they have already done.
