St. Catharines | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Location | 5 Great Western Street St. Catharines, Ontario Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 43°08′52″N79°15′23″W / 43.14778°N 79.25639°W | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Structure type | Unstaffed station | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Parking | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | Covered bicycle rack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fare zone | 83 (GO Transit) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | 1917 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rebuilt | 1988, 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Apr–Jul 2019 | 15 per day [1] 7.3%(GO Transit) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Official name | VIA Rail Station | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Designated | 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Reference no. | 4625 |
St. Catharines station is a railway station in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. It is served by the Maple Leaf train between Toronto and New York City and is a stop on the Lakeshore West line of GO Transit. The station is a designated Heritage Railway Station. [2]
The single level pavilion-style station was built and opened in 1917 by the Grand Trunk Railway and acquired by CN Rail in 1923 who used it for passenger service. Via Rail gained ownership in 1986 [3] It is the third station to be built on the site, first in 1853 by Great Western Railway and then 1898 by Grand Trunk. [3] It was renovated in 1988 and 1994, but neither changed the appearance of the structure.
The station was formerly staffed by Via Rail, but the ticket agent was replaced by an automated kiosk in October 2012. [4] A similar station was also built in Berlin, New Hampshire around the same time in 1917.
As of May 2023, GO Transit operates three daily round trips on the Lakeshore West regional rail service between Toronto and Niagara Falls. [5]
On weekdays, GO Transit bus route 18K connects St. Catharines station to Hamilton West Harbour, Hamilton Centre and Aldershot stations, as well as Brock University. [5]
Via Rail and Amtrak jointly operate a single daily round trip on the Maple Leaf train service between Toronto and New York City.
The Maple Leaf is an international passenger train service operated by Amtrak and Via Rail between Pennsylvania Station in New York City and Union Station in Toronto via the Empire Corridor. Daily service is offered in both directions; the 544-mile (875 km) trip takes approximately 12 hours, including two hours for U.S. or Canadian customs and immigration inspection at either Niagara Falls, New York, or Niagara Falls, Ontario. Although the train uses Amtrak rolling stock exclusively, the train is operated by Via Rail crews while in Canada and by Amtrak crews in the United States. Service began in 1981.
GO Transit is a regional public transit system serving the Greater Golden Horseshoe region of Ontario, Canada. With its hub at Union Station in Toronto, GO Transit's green-and-white trains and buses serve a population of more than seven million across an area over 11,000 square kilometres (4,200 sq mi) stretching from Kitchener in the west to Peterborough in the east, and from Barrie in the north to Niagara Falls in the south. In 2022, the system had a ridership of 35,234,400. GO Transit operates diesel-powered double-decker trains and coach buses, on routes that connect with all local and some long-distance inter-city transit services in its service area.
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Kitchener station is a railway station located in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, slightly to the northeast of downtown Kitchener, at 126 Weber Street West, near the corner of Victoria Street. It is a heritage building containing a waiting room and ticket counter built beside a set of tracks also used as a freight yard. A separate building to the east of the passenger area, originally built in 1925 as a freight building, now serves as the headquarters for the Goderich–Exeter Railway.
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Niagara Falls station is a railway station in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. It is served by the Maple Leaf train between Toronto and New York City and is the terminus of GO Transit's Lakeshore West line towards Toronto. The Gothic Revival station building, which was built in 1879 by the Great Western Railway, is a designated heritage railway station. It is also listed on the Canadian Register of Historic Places.
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Grimsby GO Station is a proposed commuter rail station on the GO Transit train and bus network in Southern Ontario, Canada. Located in the town of Grimsby in the Regional Municipality of Niagara, it would be a stop on the Lakeshore West line, east of the proposed Confederation GO Station in Hamilton. It was expected to open in 2021 and would have been the first station to open in the planned Niagara extension, which will also include stops at St. Catharines and Niagara Falls stations.