Pickering GO Station

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GO Transit logo.svg Pickering
Pickering GO Station 2023.jpg
Pickering GO Station in 2023
General information
Location1322 Bayly Street
Pickering, Ontario
Coordinates 43°49′50″N79°05′06″W / 43.83056°N 79.08500°W / 43.83056; -79.08500
Owned by Metrolinx
Platforms3 side platforms (train)
loop with bays (bus)
Tracks3
Connections
  Durham Region Transit
Construction
Structure typeStation building and tunnels and elevators to platforms
Parking2,508 spaces
Bicycle facilitiesYes
AccessibleYes
Other information
Station codeGO Transit: PIN
Fare zone91
History
OpenedMay 23, 1967;57 years ago (1967-05-23)
Passengers
2018907,000 [1]
Services
Preceding station GO Transit logo.svg GO Transit Following station
Rouge Hill
towards Union Station
Lakeshore East Ajax
towards Oshawa
Union Station
Terminus
 Lakeshore East
(express)
Former services
Preceding station Canadian National Railway Following station
Port Union
toward Sarnia
Grand Trunk Railway
Main Line		 Whitby
toward Montreal

Pickering GO Station is a train and bus station in the GO Transit network [2] located in Pickering, Ontario, Canada. It is a stop on the Lakeshore East line and was the eastern terminus from 1967 until 1990, when service was extended to Whitby and subsequently to Oshawa.

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History

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GTR station Pickering

The previous Pickering station, which had been constructed by Grand Trunk Railway in the early 1900s, had been about 2 kilometres east of the current location at Liverpool Road. Plans for the original GO Transit Lakeshore line called for commuter train service not to go beyond Liverpool Road where the CN York Subdivision tracks joined the CN Kingston Subdivision, because this would interfere with freight trains. No practical site could be found, but there was a large field south of the tracks on the east side of Liverpool Road with more than enough space to accommodate a station building, bus terminal and car parking, with convenient access from Bayly Street. Installation of a new crossover before the overpass at Liverpool Road was required to get to an existing industrial track, so that GO Trains standing at the station platform would be off the main line. [3]

When the station opened in 1967 it was a key transfer point between train and bus services.

In 1990 the single platform was supplemented by two more platforms and tracks when GO Transit built a dedicated right-of-way on the north side of the Canadian National tracks. This was part of the project to expand Lakeshore East train service to Ajax and Whitby, and finally to a new terminus at the Oshawa Via Rail station in 1995.

Station layout

Platforms

Pickering Pedestrian Bridge spanning railway tracks, Highway 401, and Pickering Parkway at Pickering GO Station Pickering GO Station bridge view 2023.jpg
Pickering Pedestrian Bridge spanning railway tracks, Highway 401, and Pickering Parkway at Pickering GO Station
Pedestrian Bridge Pickering GO Bridge 2023.jpg
Pedestrian Bridge

Pickering has three platforms for trains, 1 and 2 which serve trains to Union and trains to Oshawa. Track 3, separated from the other tracks, is closest to the bus bays and station. Track 3 is the original track before the extension to Oshawa, and is no longer being used.

Pedestrian bridge

The Pickering Pedestrian Bridge was opened in 2012 between the GO station on its south side of the tracks and Pickering Town Centre, a shopping centre with access to regional bus service on the bridge's north side. The 250-metre (820 ft) enclosed bridge spans 6 railway tracks, the 14 lanes of Highway 401 and the two-lane Pickering Parkway, a municipal road. At night, the bridge is illuminated by 300 LED lights in rotating shades of lilac, purple, blue and teal making the bridge visible from overflying airplanes. The bridge has received the City of Pickering’s 2019 Urban Design Award and the 2019 Engineering News Record Global Best Projects Award. In 2021, the bridge became a Guinness World Record holder for the longest enclosed pedestrian bridge in the world. [4] [5] Exterior cladding of the bridge in a metallic mesh proved to be problematic during construction and, along with severe weather, delayed its completion. [6]

Parking

As of 2021, the station has three parking lots with respectively 585, 780 and 500 spaces plus a multi-level parking garage finished in 2013 or 2014 with 1673 spaces. [7] [8]

Connecting bus routes

A passenger waiting to board a GO Transit bus at the Pickering GO Station Pickering GO Station (24320669087).jpg
A passenger waiting to board a GO Transit bus at the Pickering GO Station

The station is the Pickering hub for Durham Region Transit local bus services, which evolved from the Bay Ridges Dial-a-Bus in 1970.

Durham Region Transit [9]
GO Transit

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References

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  2. ↑ "Pickering GO Station Information". GO Transit. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
  3. ↑ Wilfred Sergeant. "Building GO Transit". 8: Locating the stations. HTA Press. Archived from the original on March 26, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Pickering Pedestrian Bridge declared longest enclosed people crossing in world by Guinness". Metrolinx. September 14, 2021. Archived from the original on September 14, 2021. Retrieved September 14, 2021.
  5. ↑ ""Gateway to Durham Region" officially lights up the night sky". Metrolinx. September 25, 2018. Archived from the original on December 2, 2020. Retrieved September 14, 2021.
  6. ↑ Carola Vyhnak (7 February 2014). "Pickering's GO pedestrian bridge inching along". Torstar News Services. Retrieved February 8, 2014.
  7. ↑ "Pickering GO". Metrolinx . Retrieved September 14, 2021.
  8. ↑ "Sections of Pickering GO station closed for construction - 680News". Archived from the original on 15 July 2012.
  9. ↑ "System Map" (PDF). www.durhamregiontransit.com. 2022-03-30. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
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