Hamilton GO Centre

Hamilton GO Transit station
36 Hunter Street East Hamilton, Ontario
Facility information
Opened	1933 (original station) April 30, 1996 (GO service)
Station schedules	HMGO
Fare zone	18
Station building	yes
Wheelchair accessibility	yes
Parking spots	0
Bicycle rack	yes
GO Transit webpage	HMGO
Lakeshore West line Line opened: May 23, 1967 Ridership (2007): 14,052,900 Service type: all day service (Aldershot–Union) early rush hour peak (Hamilton–Union) (4 trains) weekend/holiday service (Niagara Falls–Union, bypassing Hamilton) (4 trains) Niagara Falls 130 km St. Catharines 111 km Hamilton 63.2 km Aldershot 55.7 km Burlington 51.5 km Appleby 44.9 km Bronte 41.5 km Oakville 34.4 km Clarkson 26.9 km Port Credit 20.6 km Long Branch 15.4 km Mimico 10.8 km Exhibition 3.2 km Union –
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Hamilton GO Centre is a GO Transit railway and bus station is located at Hunter Street East and Hughson Street South in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The "Centre" in the facility's name refers to how, unlike other GO stations, it doubles as a regional bus terminal for private intercity coach carriers including Greyhound and Coach Canada.

Hamilton GO Centre is the only example of Art Deco railway station architecture in Canada.^{[citation needed]} It opened in 1933 as the head office and the Hamilton station of the Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway. Passenger service on the TH&B was discontinued on April 26, 1981, and the TH&B merged into the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1987, leaving the facility completely disused.

In the early 1990s, GO service was provided out of two different facilities in Hamilton: trains were routed along the CN Grimsby subdivision to a different station 1.6 km to the north, and GO buses operated out of an older bus station at on the northern edge of Hamilton's Central Business District (CBD) at John Street North and Rebecca Street. In order to better connect GO Transit service to Hamilton's CBD, improve the interface with the Hamilton Street Railway, and consolidate train and bus services at a single site, renovations were undertaken to convert the TH&B station into the Hamilton GO Centre. The new facility opened on April 30, 1996.^[1]

Hamilton Street Railway

Although numerous Hamilton Street Railway (HSR) routes stop immediately adjacent to the Hamilton GO Centre, until 2009 only Route 51 - University actually made use of the station proper as a stop. On June 28, 2009 a realignment of downtown bus routing saw new platforms inside the GO Centre property become the downtown terminus points for three busy lower city routes: Route 1 - King, Route 2 - Barton and Route 3 - Cannon.

GO Transit

The GO station is the western terminus of Lakeshore West trains and bus routes 16, 18, 22 and 47. VIA Rail trains do not serve Hamilton, but interchange with the GO line at Aldershot Station in neighbouring Burlington.

• Platform 8 - Hamilton QEW GO Bus (Express to Union Station)
• Platform 9 - Aldershot Station (Lakeshore West Trains Eastbound to Toronto/Oshawa)
• Platform 10 - Highway 407 West GO Bus
• Platform 11 - Hamilton-Meadowvale Business Park GO Bus

Images

Interior, lobby area

Outdoors, looking West

Hunter Street West, looking East towards Go Station

Ontario Heritage Act designation

External links

• GO Transit station page for Hamilton GO Centre

References

Coordinates: 43°15′11.4″N 79°52′09″W / 43.253167°N 79.86917°W / 43.253167; -79.86917