Bramalea (GO Station)

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GO Transit Georgetown Line
Georgetown
Mount Pleasant
Brampton
Bramalea
Malton
Etobicoke North
Weston
Bloor
Union Station
Facility Services
1713 Steeles Avenue Brampton, Ontario
Fare zone	32
Station building	yes
Wheelchair access	yes
Parking spots	1700

Bramalea GO Station is a GO Transit railway and bus station along the Georgetown line. It is located at 1713 Steeles Avenue East, near the community of Bramalea in Brampton at Steeles Ave. East and Bramalea Road.

Bramalea is the western terminus of all-day weekday train service to/from Union Station on the Georgetown line, although some peak-hour trains travel further west. On the weekend, a rather sparse amount of bus service is offered to/from Union Station Bus Terminal.

Like many other stations on the GO Train network, Bramalea is equipped with parking facilities, elevators for wheelchair access, a station building housing a waiting room and ticket sales, a Ticket Vending Machine (TVM), and a bus loop.

In addition to the train service during the weekdays, it also features some train-bus services to/from Union Station and a frequent 407 ETR bus serving York University's (Keele Campus), Square One, Mississauga, Sheridan College (Trafalgar Campus) Oakville, McMaster University, and Hamilton.

The station has a bus loop, where Brampton Transit routes (13, 16, 91) as well as GO Transit bus service are provided during mid day and peak hours. In addition, there are Brampton Transit routes that operate outside on Steeles (11) and Bramelea (15).

Since mid-day train service on the Georgetown corridor was first launched in May 2002, GO Transit have hired various contractors to improve the station. First, the station was made wheelchair-accessible by building an additional pedestrian tunnel and a pair of elevators, completed in January 2003. In August of that year, construction began of a new rail platform which was required in order to provide for all-day train service for the station, as the station is located on a busy railway corridor used by CN freight trains bypassing Toronto.

To accommodate future increases in ridership, a new 650-space parking lot was opened in June 2005 on the south side of the tracks. GO Transit has also constructed a bus garage at the north-east corner by Steeles Avenue and Bramelea Road.