| Acton GO Station |
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| Address | Eastern Ave, Acton, ON |
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Acton GO Station is a future GO Transit railway and bus station to be constructed in the community of Acton, part of the Town of Halton Hills, Ontario, Canada. The station site is located adjacent to the Old Hide House, where a previous Acton station formerly stood. The new Acton station was approved as part of the Georgetown-to-Kitchener Extension Environmental Assessment in 2009[1]. In November 2010, a partial rollout of this plan was announced to be in place by late 2011. Two trains daily are planned to serve Acton, Guelph and Kitchener with layover for those trains at a small facility in Kitchener. $18 million would be spent to get this first stage operational, with further upgrades to come. [2] The Acton station's opening has been delayed into 2012. .[3]
The previous station building at this site in Acton had been constructed in 1908 by the Grand Trunk Railway[4] with the origin of the line dating back to 1856[5]. The line ultimately became part of the Canadian National Railway system and regular service to the town was discontinued in 1967. GO Trains had also stopped at the station for a brief time between 1990 and 1993.