Aldershot GO Station

Aldershot GO Station is a railway station and bus station used by Via Rail and GO Transit, located at Highway 403 and Waterdown Road in the Aldershot community of Burlington, Ontario, Canada.

Aldershot
Location	1199 Waterdown Road Burlington, Ontario
Coordinates	43°18′48″N 79°51′20″W
Owned by	Metrolinx
Platforms	2 side platforms, 1 island platform
Tracks	4
Connections	Burlington Transit Hamilton Street Railway
Construction
Structure type	Station building with a waiting room and public washroom
Parking	1619 spaces
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Station code	Via Rail: ALDR GO Transit: AL Amtrak:AST
Fare zone	17
Services
Preceding station Via Rail Following station Brantford toward Windsor Windsor–Toronto Oakville toward Toronto Grimsby toward New York via Niagara Falls Toronto– New York Maple Leaf Preceding station GO Transit Following station Terminus Lakeshore West Burlington towards Union Station Hamilton Terminus Lakeshore West Express West Harbour towards Niagara Falls
Former services Preceding station Canadian National Railway Following station Hamilton toward Suspension Bridge Niagara Falls– Toronto Local stops Burlington toward Toronto Hamilton Terminus Hamilton– Allandale Burlington toward Allandale

Services

Aldershot serves Burlington on Via Rail's Quebec City-Windsor Corridor routes between Toronto and Windsor, and is also served by trains coming westbound from Montreal. It doubles as the Via Rail station for Hamilton, which does not have an intercity rail station of its own.

The station is also served by the joint Via–Amtrak Maple Leaf train, connecting Toronto and New York City through Niagara Falls.

Aldershot is the western terminus of the Lakeshore West line train service in off-peak hours, with buses continuing on from here to Hamilton GO Centre and Brantford Bus Terminal. Eight trains (four to Hamilton GO, four to West Harbour GO) continue on to Hamilton during peak periods.[1] One peak-hour train arrives from Niagara Falls in the morning and continues to Niagara Falls in the afternoon.

Burlington Transit bus routes 4 Central and 87 North Service – Aldershot terminate at this station.[2] Hamilton Street Railway bus route 18 Waterdown provides peak hour, weekday service to Waterdown.[3]

History

GTR station in 1910 with the sign showing "Waterdown"

The first railway station built here was originally named Waterdown, due to its location on Waterdown Road. The Canadian Pacific Railway constructed a rail line from Guelph Junction to Hamilton in 1912 and built a station in the neighbouring town of Waterdown,[4] with the station here subsequently renamed after the community of Aldershot, where it is situated.

The Great Western Railway established the line between Niagara Falls and Toronto in 1856, with that company being purchased in 1882 by the Grand Trunk Railway which merged into the Canadian National Railway in 1920.

References

1. "Table 1-18 Lakeshore West GO Train and Bus Schedule" (PDF). GO Transit. January 5, 2019. Retrieved February 23, 2019.
2. "Schedules". Burlington Transit. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
3. "Hamilton Street Railway: 18 Waterdown schedule" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-03-10. Retrieved 2014-03-10.
4. "July 1, 1912: The opening of the railway in Waterdown". Waterdown-East Flamborough Heritage Society. Archived from the original on April 15, 2017. At the beginning of the project, Waterdown was not even going to be given access to the railway – there was no station planned within the Village. Eventually there were two - Waterdown North near Parkside Drive, and Waterdown South near Dundas Street

External links

• Media related to Aldershot GO Station at Wikimedia Commons

• GO Transit station page for Aldershot GO Station

• Via Rail station page for Aldershot GO Station
• Aldershot Via Rail & GO Transit Station (Canada RailGuide—TrainWeb)