Hamilton GO Centre

Hamilton GO Centre GO Transit
Station statistics
Address	36 Hunter Street East Hamilton, Ontario
Coordinates	43°15′11.4″N 79°52′09″W / 43.253167°N 79.86917°W / 43.253167; -79.86917Coordinates: 43°15′11.4″N 79°52′09″W / 43.253167°N 79.86917°W / 43.253167; -79.86917
Connections	Hamilton Street Railway   Greyhound Canada   Coach Canada
Levels	2
Platforms	1 island platform for trains 18 bus bays
Tracks	2 + 1 bypass
Parking	54 reserved parking spots
Bicycle facilities	bicycle rack
Other information
Opened	1933
Rebuilt	1996
Accessible
Station code	GO Transit: HMGO
Fare zone	18
Presto card	Yes
Services
Preceding station   GO Transit   Following station Terminus Lakeshore West Aldershot toward Union Station

Hamilton GO Centre is a GO Transit railway and bus station 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 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, designed by Garwood-Jones & Hanham Architects,^[1] opened on April 30, 1996.

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.

Bus platform assignments

• 1: GO layover
• 2: GO layover
• 3: Coach Canada
• 4: Coach Canada to Cambridge and Kitchener
• 5: Coach Canada to St. Catharines, Niagara Falls and Buffalo
• 6: GO layover
• 7: Greyhound services to Toronto Coach Terminal, Brantford Transit Terminal and London
• 8: GO Bus 16, QEW express to Toronto Union Station Bus Terminal^[2]
• 9: GO Bus 18, connector to GO Train (via Aldershot and Burlington) to Union Station (Toronto)^[3]
• 10: GO Bus 47 - Hwy 407 West, via Square One and Bramalea GO Station to York University^[4]
• 11: GO Bus 22, via Aldershot GO Station and Burlington Carpool to Meadowvale Business Park^[5]
• 12: GO layover
• 13: GO layover
• 14: GO layover
• 15: GO layover
• 16: GO layover
• 17: Hamilton Street Railway - Route 3 Cannon^[6] and Route 51 University^[7]
• 18: Hamilton Street Railway - Route 1 King^[8] and Route 2 Barton^[9]

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hamilton GO Centre.

• GO Transit station page for Hamilton GO Centre

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