Agincourt GO Station

Agincourt
Location	4100 Sheppard Avenue East Scarborough, Ontario Canada
Coordinates	43°47′10″N 79°17′04″W / 43.78611°N 79.28444°W / 43.78611; -79.28444Coordinates: 43°47′10″N 79°17′04″W / 43.78611°N 79.28444°W / 43.78611; -79.28444
Owned by	Metrolinx
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	1
Connections	TTC buses
Construction
Structure type	Brick station building
Parking	342 spaces
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Station code	GO Transit: AGGO
Fare zone	07
History
Opened	7 September 1982
Services
Preceding station   GO Transit   Following station Kennedy toward Union Station Stouffville Milliken toward Lincolnville

Agincourt GO Station is a GO Transit railway station in the Scarborough area of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, served by Stouffville line trains.

The station's track was once used by Toronto and Nipissing Railway and later Grand Trunk Railway and finally by CN Rail. TNR opened a station at Agincourt in 1871 (not to be mistaken for CPR Agincourt station located further east) and was later demolished and not replaced until GO established service in the area in 1982 (and rebuilt a station structure in the 1990s).

The Toronto Transit Commission's 85 Sheppard East and 190 Scarborough Centre Rocket bus routes links Agincourt Station to Don Mills station in the west, the 85 continues east into Scarborough while the 190 continues express to Scarborough Centre station. The proposed Sheppard East LRT would create a grade-separation of the rail line at Sheppard Avenue East (this started in December, 2009), with a connection from the LRT platform to the GO platform. But now it seems that plans have been made to build a second track from Agincourt to Markham GO so the line will operate on weekends. The Rob Ford administration saw a cancellation of the LRT projects, with an intended Sheppard subway line extension; however, on March 22, 2012 Toronto City council voted to reinstate the Sheppard LRT project and construction should restart sometime within the next few years.

Since the Sheppard LRT project was a plan back in 2010, it required a grade separation of Sheppard Avenue East and the GO train tracks. This led contractors from the City of Toronto and TTC to build a bridge for the GO train tracks, while having Sheppard Avenue move under it, as the light rail vehicles would not have been able to cross the GO tracks at ground level. On July 3, 2012 the underpass was completed and opened to regular traffic, which was five months ahead of scheduled.

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