Brampton GO Station

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Brampton GO Transit station
27 Church Street West Brampton, Ontario
Facility information
Station schedules	BRGO
Fare zone	33
Station building	yes
Wheelchair accessibility	yes
Parking spots	1044
Bicycle rack	yes
GO Transit webpage	BRGO
Georgetown line Ridership (2006): 3,821,300 Service type: rush hour peak (4 trains) extended peak (Bramalea–Union) (9 trains)   Georgetown 48.9 km Mount Pleasant 40.6 km Brampton 35.9 km Bramalea 29.8 km Malton 23.7 km Etobicoke North 17.7 km Weston 13.8 km Bloor 6.2 km Union – Train lines A Lakeshore West B Lakeshore East C Milton D Georgetown E Barrie F Richmond Hill G Stouffville Bus terminals Ajax Bus Terminal Barrie Bus Terminal Finch Bus Terminal Guelph Bus Terminal McMaster University Bus Terminal Newmarket Bus Terminal Oshawa Bus Terminal Richmond Hill Centre Terminal Scarborough Centre Bus Terminal Square One Bus Terminal Union Station Bus Terminal Yorkdale Bus Terminal York Mills Bus Terminal

Brampton GO Station is a GO Transit railway station on the Georgetown line, located at 27 Church Street West in downtown Brampton.

Like many other stations on the GO train network, Brampton is equipped with parking facilities, wheelchair-accessible train service, a station building housing a waiting room and ticket sales, a Ticket Vending Machine (TVM), and a nearby bus terminal.

GO shares this station with VIA Rail, Canada's national passenger railway. VIA runs trains westward to Guelph, Kitchener, Stratford, London, and Sarnia, and east to Toronto's Union Station, connecting with the other Quebec City-Windsor Corridor services.

Near the train station, accessible by passenger tunnel, is the Downtown Brampton Bus Terminal, from which GO buses run to and from the Yorkdale and York Mills stations in Toronto, Orangeville, and Guelph, along with local Brampton Transit, and Intercity Greyhound Bus Lines.

As GO Transit's ridership is growing, the station's current parking lot is already operating over its designed capacity, and cannot be extended because of its downtown location. A new Mount Pleasant station opened in early 2005 to take some of the pressure off this station.

There have been many requests for the all-day train service to Brampton Station, but heavy CN freight traffic and VIA Rail trains on the same tracks make it impossible at present; there are some off-peak trains travelling from Toronto's Union Station to the nearby Bramalea Station. An environmental assessment is nearing completion to add an additional track through Brampton and a new south platform would accommodate additional trains beyond Bramalea.

[edit] External links

• GO Transit station page for Brampton GO Station

• VIA Rail station page for Brampton GO Station

Preceding station		VIA Rail		Following station
Georgetown toward Sarnia		Sarnia-Toronto		Toronto Terminus
Preceding station		GO Transit		Following station
Mount Pleasant toward Georgetown		Georgetown		Bramalea toward Union Station

Coordinates: 43.687115° N 79.764143° W