Lakeshore East line

Lakeshore East
GO Train approaches a level crossing at Galloway Road in Scarborough
Overview
Type	Commuter rail
System	GO Train
Locale	Greater Toronto Area
Stations	10
Daily ridership	52,000 (2014)
Website	Table 09
Operation
Opened	May 23, 1967
Owner	Metrolinx
Operator(s)	GO Transit
Technical
Line length	50.5 kilometres (31.4 mi)
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Route map Lakeshore West line Milton, Georgetown   and Barrie lines 0 km Union Don Yard Richmond Hill line Don River DVP Overpass 8.4 km Danforth 13.8 km Scarborough Scarborough Jct./Stouffville line 17.1 km Eglinton 20.3 km Guildwood 26.6 km Rouge Hill 28.5 km Rouge River Toronto ¦ Durham Region 31.9 km Durham Jct. 33.6 km Pickering 37.5 km Ajax 46.2 km Whitby 50.5 km Oshawa VIA Rail Corridor service

Lakeshore East is a commuter rail line operated by GO Transit, spanning east Toronto and the Regional Municipality of Durham in Ontario, Canada. It extends from Union Station in Toronto to Oshawa. Buses from Oshawa station connect to communities further east in Newcastle, Bowmanville and Peterborough.

All off-peak and some peak trains are interlined with the Lakeshore West line, continuing to Aldershot.

The Lakeshore East line is the second oldest of GO's services, opening as part of the then-unified Lakeshore line on GO's first day of operations, 23 May 1967. It is ten minutes younger than its twin; although the first train from Pickering bound for Toronto left at 5:00 am that day, a 4:50 am departure from Oakville on Lakeshore West beat it into the record books.

The line initially ran along the CN Kingston Subdivision from Union to Pickering. Just prior to the opening of GO service, CN had moved much of its freight operations from downtown areas to the new MacMillan Yard north of the city. To feed freight traffic from the east into the Yard, CN built the new York Subdivision across the top of the city (in what was then farmland) and connected the Yard to the Kingston Sub just west of Pickering at Pickering Junction. This offloaded the majority of traffic from the Kingston Sub between Pickering Junction and Union, allowing ample scheduling room for GO service. Sections of the Kingston Sub to the east of Pickering Junction remained in use as the mainline to Montreal, and CN did not have capacity to allow GO traffic on these sections.