Whitby GO Station

Whitby
Whitby
General information
Location	1350 Brock Street South; Whitby, Ontario
Coordinates	43°51′54″N 78°56′17″W / 43.86500°N 78.93806°W / 43.86500; -78.93806
Owned by	Metrolinx
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Durham Region Transit; Megabus; Bookaride bus to Ottawa;
Construction
Parking	2,958 spaces
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Station code	GO Transit: WH
Fare zone	93
History
Opened	December 4, 1988
Passengers
2018	1,000,000
Services

Whitby GO Station is a train and bus station in the GO Transit network^[1] in Whitby, Ontario, Canada. It is a stop on the Lakeshore East line and was the eastern terminus of the dedicated GO Transit right-of-way until those tracks were extended to Oshawa in 1995. There are connections by GO Bus northward to Port Perry and Beaverton, and local Durham Region Transit routes within Whitby.

Station layout

The station is west of Brock Street on the south side of Highway 401.^[1] The main station building and bus terminal are on the north side of the railway with the island train platform between the two GO Train tracks connected by tunnels. Facilities inside the station building include the ticket agent, waiting room, and public washroom. The bus loop is north-east of the building, and the passenger pick-up/drop-off area is directly in front.

There are about three thousand parking spaces available, and carpool parking is permitted. The majority of the parking, including a multi-storey parking structure,^[3] is on the south side across the CN freight tracks and can be reached by a pedestrian bridge.^[4]

History

The Whitby Junction Station was built by the Grand Trunk Railway in 1903, at the foot of Byron Street near where the current GO Station is. It closed in 1969, and in 1971 the building was moved; first to the north-east corner of Victoria Street and Henry Street for use as an art gallery, and then in 2005 relocated across the street into Whitby Iroquois Park at the north-west corner of the intersection.^[5]

The southerly terminus of the Whitby, Port Perry and Lindsay Railway was at the harbour in Whitby, and that line linked with the Grand Trunk Railway a short distance east of the station.^[6]

Connecting buses

GO Bus

90 - Lakeshore East Bus (night-time only)
96 - Oshawa/Finch Express Bus^[7]

Durham Region Transit

302 to North Campus Terminal
302B to Anderson Road/Duggan Avenue (rush-hour only)
905A to Harmony Terminal
905C to Uxbridge via Port Perry
917 to Pickering Parkway Terminal (west), Oshawa Centre Terminal (east)
917Z to Toronto Zoo (west), Oshawa Centre Terminal (east)
392 to Ontario Shores

Long-distance buses

Megabus: Toronto - Montreal^[8]
Bookaride: Toronto - Ottawa

References

^ a b c d e "Whitby GO Station Information". GO Transit. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
^ "Drivers of Ridership and Revenue" (PDF). Metrolinx. 2019-02-07. p. 4. Retrieved 2019-01-31.
^ "Whitby GO station opens new four-storey parking lot". durhamregion.com. February 24, 2010. Retrieved March 22, 2014. Additional 1,400 spaces to provide enhanced services to users
^ "Whitby GO Station Bridge". Dineen Construction Corporation. 2011. Retrieved March 22, 2014. Pedestrian bridge at Whitby GO Station - Value $5,500,000. Dineen constructed this new pedestrian bridge to provide an additional access point from the centre platform to the South GO parking lot.
^ "Station Gallery History". Retrieved March 22, 2014.
^ Brown, Ron (2011). In Search of the Grand Trunk: Ghost Rail Lines in Ontario. Toronto: Dundurn Press. ISBN 978-1554888825. Retrieved March 22, 2014.
^ "96 Oshawa/Finch Express GO Bus Schedule" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-07-23. Retrieved 2015-05-18.
^ "Bus Stops". Megabus. January 6, 2019.

External links

GO Transit station page for Whitby GO Station

Media related to Whitby GO Station at Wikimedia Commons
Media related to Whitby Junction Station at Wikimedia Commons

[station-1] "Whitby GO Station Information". GO Transit. Retrieved February 20, 2019.

[2] "Drivers of Ridership and Revenue" (PDF). Metrolinx. 2019-02-07. p. 4. Retrieved 2019-01-31.

[3] "Whitby GO station opens new four-storey parking lot". durhamregion.com. February 24, 2010. Retrieved March 22, 2014. Additional 1,400 spaces to provide enhanced services to users

[4] "Whitby GO Station Bridge". Dineen Construction Corporation. 2011. Retrieved March 22, 2014. Pedestrian bridge at Whitby GO Station - Value $5,500,000. Dineen constructed this new pedestrian bridge to provide an additional access point from the centre platform to the South GO parking lot.

[5] "Station Gallery History". Retrieved March 22, 2014.

[6] Brown, Ron (2011). In Search of the Grand Trunk: Ghost Rail Lines in Ontario. Toronto: Dundurn Press. ISBN 978-1554888825. Retrieved March 22, 2014.

[7] "96 Oshawa/Finch Express GO Bus Schedule" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-07-23. Retrieved 2015-05-18.

[8] "Bus Stops". Megabus. January 6, 2019.

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Union Pearson Express	Union Station Bloor Mount Dennis † Weston Pearson Airport
Former or proposed station sites	Lawrence–Kennedy York University
Bus terminals	Bramalea Brampton Cornell Finch Highway 407 Kipling Richmond Hill Centre McMaster University Scarborough Centre Square One Union Station University of Waterloo York Mills Yorkdale
Miscellaneous	History Fares Rail services Bus services Fleet Expansion GO-ALRT
See also	Metrolinx Presto card SmartTrack The Big Move
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