Brampton GO Station
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Brampton
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| Via Rail and GO Transit station | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | 27/31 Church Street West Brampton, Ontario Canada |
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| Coordinates | 43°41′13″N 79°45′53″W / 43.68694°N 79.76472°WCoordinates: 43°41′13″N 79°45′53″W / 43.68694°N 79.76472°W | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by |
Metrolinx (station) Canadian National Railway (tracks) |
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| Platforms | 2 side platforms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Connections |
 Downtown Brampton Terminal
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| Parking | 962 spaces | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disabled access | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | GO Transit: BRGO | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fare zone | 33 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1856 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1907 (GTR) 2011 (GOT) |
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| Designated | 1992 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Reference no. | 4567 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Brampton GO Station is a railway station served by GO Transit and Via Rail, located at 27 Church Street West in downtown Brampton, Ontario, Canada. It is directly connected to the Downtown Brampton Terminal which serves GO Transit and Brampton Transit buses.
Brampton station opened in 1856 as a part of the Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) line between Toronto and London. The current station building was built in 1907.
The GTR was acquired by the Canadian National Railway (CN) in 1923, then in 1977 CN's passenger rail division was transferred to Via Rail.
GO Transit began serving the station in 1974 with the creation of the Georgetown line (now Kitchener Line).
A new second platform on the south side of the tracks was built in early 2011 featuring a covered section, improved lighting and security systems as well as an automatic snow melting system. Previously only the north track had been accessible to passenger trains.
In July 2014 Metrolinx (GO Transit) purchased the station from CN for $2.5 Million.
The station is wheelchair accessible and the building houses a waiting room and ticket sales. The train station is connected by a passenger tunnel to the Downtown Brampton Bus Terminal on the south side.
With growing commuter ridership, the station's parking lot is operating over its designed capacity, and cannot be extended because of its downtown location. Mount Pleasant GO Station opened in early 2005 to take some of the pressure off this station.
The trackage between Bramalea and Georgetown is still owned by Canadian National and it is part of the railway's primary freight line across Ontario. This limits the number of passenger trains that can operate through Brampton.
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