Northern Light
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The schedule is for the week starting October 27th, but the first weekend day is Sturday November 1st. (so, yes)
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GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)
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The schedule is for the week starting October 27th, but the first weekend day is Sturday November 1st. (so, yes)
chrisw
Active Member
Stouffville:
New 7:59am southbound from Unionville GO arriving Union at 8:40am.
New 4:50 PM northbound from Union Station arriving at Unionville GO at 5:31 pm.
Both these peak trips are 10mins earlier than the train going to/from Old Elm.
Niagara weekend:
Returning trips are at 7:58pm and 10:04pm, before it was 8:17pm on Sundays and 9:17pm on Saturdays.
Barrie:
New Southbound from Aurora GO at 7:20AM, Aurora GO now has 15min service from 7:05-7:50AM. Northbound from Union from 4:53pm to Aurora Go.
New 7:59am southbound from Unionville GO arriving Union at 8:40am.
New 4:50 PM northbound from Union Station arriving at Unionville GO at 5:31 pm.
Both these peak trips are 10mins earlier than the train going to/from Old Elm.
Niagara weekend:
Returning trips are at 7:58pm and 10:04pm, before it was 8:17pm on Sundays and 9:17pm on Saturdays.
Barrie:
New Southbound from Aurora GO at 7:20AM, Aurora GO now has 15min service from 7:05-7:50AM. Northbound from Union from 4:53pm to Aurora Go.
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chrisw
Active Member
Yes, 3 new AM peak trips. Regarding the 3 new peak trips in the afternoon, there's now 10M service from 4:03PM to 5:23pm. (Also there's trains at 3:50pm and 5:35pm)
anb
Active Member
Checked the GO website and saw that LW trains won't be running this weekend, and will be running buses to Bramalea GO. The issue with this is that not only is Bramalea so far out of the way if you're already at Lakeshore and your intent would be to get to Union or Exhibiton or anywhere else in Toronto, but the Kitchener trains only run at hourly service. MX you might as well just run the buses to Union direct, or serve both Bramalea and 407 Terminal so people get a flexibility option in case they miss the hourly train, or even go to Kipling to the bus terminal that you guys literally own... At least on the bright side we finally get the 56 running on a weekend for once.
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kvvoyage
New Member
Regarding the new LSE/W timetable - I travel from Danforth to St. Catharines every Friday making use of the only through-running service of the day. However, I recall it leaving Union at 1721 and the Union-NF segment of the trip seems to have been moved earlier to 1700. Is there any information on whether this unidirectional Oshawa-Niagara Falls run will still exist post 27th Oct (with the corresponding LSE trip segment also moved earlier)?
E•MO•TION
New Member
No, that Niagara train will originate at Willowbrook now.
Northern Light
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Could you send me a DM (your settings currently preclude one going the other way)
kvvoyage
New Member
Thank you!
LNahid2000
Senior Member
This is a pretty big deal: https://www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/article/metrolinx-extending-weekend-go-trains-to-kitchener/
Starting on Nov. 23, four existing weekend trips that had previously stopped at Mount Pleasant GO will now continue on to Kitchener GO.
Meanwhile, a weekday trip that had been stopping at Guelph Central GO will carry on to Kitchener GO.
Metrolinx is also adding 18 new weekend trips between Bramalea GO and Union Station, two new weekday trips between Bramalea and Union Station, and two existing weekday trips will be extended from Malton GO to Bramalea GO.
Starting on Nov. 23, four existing weekend trips that had previously stopped at Mount Pleasant GO will now continue on to Kitchener GO.
Meanwhile, a weekday trip that had been stopping at Guelph Central GO will carry on to Kitchener GO.
Metrolinx is also adding 18 new weekend trips between Bramalea GO and Union Station, two new weekday trips between Bramalea and Union Station, and two existing weekday trips will be extended from Malton GO to Bramalea GO.
crs1026
Superstar
The service agreements are welcome, the agreement with CN is indeed a very big deal. Now let’s hear the detailed plan and construction schedule.
The tipping point will be when counter peak trains are announced.
- Paul
Northern Light
Superstar
Agreed.
Lets see what other tidbits are in the article... brought to us by @LNahid2000 (who may not post as often as he used to but still to great effect)
The ultimate service goal isn't a surprise, and actually silent on how many trains will reach Mt.Pleasant. My recollection being the one-time commitment was 15M to Bramalea, 30M to Mt. Pleasant and hourly to K-W.
Also, no mention of further speed improvements.
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On specific infra, we have 40km of new track (how does that match previous plans?) but I don't see any flyunder.......
E•MO•TION
New Member
Also happy to see that the one Kitchener Line train that stopped at every stop except Kitchener is finally being extended to… Kitchener… if you want to imagine the confusion that caused every night.
Garuda
Active Member
As someone who rode that specific train a few times it wasn’t a big deal. They were very clear on the announcements that it was stopping in Guelph. As far as I remember no one came up to the CSA in tears complaining.
Also this is great news! And judging by the Heritiage Road construction I hope they move forward with that rail crossover asap.
Metroscapes
Active Member
Okay...I gotta ask, after how they botched the announcement of Niagara service expansion...
Does "four existing weekend trips that had previously stopped at Mount Pleasant GO will now continue on to Kitchener GO" mean four westbound trips that stopped at Mt Pleasant are getting extended, with four more trips returning eastbound? Or is it 2 WB + 2 EB = 4?
Wasn't there a post in the construction thread of a capital plan that included a new mainline platform for Georgetown GO? I've griped about that piece's deferral for years. The re-alignment of the switch at Silver Junction and expansion of the easterly run-up single-handedly made a great improvement to run time, but continuing to force trains to/from Kitchener to grind through the side track continues to weigh down travel time.
Northern Light
Superstar
Good questions.
No answers just yet.
The actual news release will drop shortly after the presser starts which is 10am, on paper, though, as I've noted in the past, this government rarely starts pressers on time.