Stouffville line

Stouffville
Overview
Type	Commuter rail
System	GO Train
Locale	Greater Toronto Area
Daily ridership	10,058 (2008)
Website	Table 71
Operation
Opening	September 7, 1982
Owner	Metrolinx
Operator(s)	GO Transit
Technical
Line length	49.6 kilometres (30.8 mi)
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge

Stouffville is one of the seven train lines of the GO Transit system in the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada. Its southern terminus is Union Station in Toronto, and its northern terminus is in Lincolnville in Whitchurch-Stouffville. There are bus connections from almost every station via Go Transit Buses, Toronto Transit Commission, and York Region Transit.

Between Union Station and Scarborough Station, the Stouffville line shares tracks with the Lakeshore East line, but it does not stop at Scarborough or Danforth stations.

History

Like its sister the Barrie line, commuter service along the Stouffville line corridor was originally provided by Via Rail. On September 7, 1982, Via service on both routes was discontinued and replacement service, then just a single weekday run on each corridor, was started by GO Transit.^[1]

On 29 June 1998, GO Transit restored full service to the Lakeshore lines, and terminated service to Danforth and Scarborough on the Stouffville line—these stations were fully integrated into the Lakeshore East line route schedule.

On December 13, 2007, the government of Ontario announced funding to Metrolinx for network expansion, which included $20 million to build a second track to enable all-day two-way service between Union Station and Markham.^[2] On September 2, 2008, the line's northern terminus was extended northwards from Stouffville to Lincolnville.

In April 2011 GO representatives stated that ultimately GO would like to run an all-day service on the Stouffville line, however they described this as "in the distant future".^[3] As of April 2013 the Stouffville service includes six southbound morning trains and six northbound afternoon trains. Service to and from Unionville includes one additional southbound morning train and two additional northbound afternoon trains. ^[4]

Stations

A list of stations on this line (in order inbound to Union):

Route

[ v t e ] Stouffville GO Line route map

Legend ( Downsview ) 0 Union Station  1  ( Finch ) 16.4 Union to Kennedy 2.0 Cherry St Junction B  2.5 Don River 2.6 Don Valley Parkway 3.0 Eastern Avenue 3.3 Queen Street East 3.8 Dundas Street East 3.9 Logan Ave 4.1 Carlaw Avenue 4.2 Gerrard Street East 4.4 Pape Avenue Pedestrian Bridge 4.8 Jones Avenue 5.5 TTC Greenwood Yard 5.5 Greenwood Avenue 5.8 Pedestrian underpassMonarch Park - Woodfield Road 6.2 Coxwell Avenue 7.1 Woodbine Avenue 8.1 Main Street 8.4 Danforth B  9.4 Victoria Park Avenue 10.6 Warden Avenue 10.9 Danforth Avenue 11.7 Birchmount Road 4.4 Pedestrian Bridge, former Woodrow Avenue 12.9 Kennedy Road 13.8 Scarborough B  13.8 St. Clair Avenue 14.0 Scarborough Junction B  14.5 Danforth Road 14.9 Pedestrian CrossingCorvette Ave 15.2 Pedestrian CrossingBenjamin Blvd - Saugeen Cres  2  Warden  2  16.2 Freight spur (serving Golden Mile) 16.4 Kennedy  2   3  6.5 Kennedy to Agincourt 16.5 Eglinton Avenue 18.5 Lawrence East  3  18.5 Lawrence Avenue 18.8 Southwest Highland Creek 18.9 Freight Siding 19.0 Freight Siding 20.4 Ellesmere Road 20.4 Ellesmere  3  20.6 McCowan  3  20.6 Atlantic Packaging freight siding 20.8 Progress Avenue 20.9 West Highland Creek 21.1 West Highland Creek 21.4 Highway 401 22.1 CP Havelock line 22.2 West Highland Creek 22.6 Sheppard Avenue 22.9 Agincourt 4.5 Agincourt to Milliken 23.0 Pedestrian CrossingMarilyn Ave - Agincourt Dr 23.6 Havendale Road 24.1 Huntingwood Drive 24.8 Finch Avenue 25.4 Freight siding 25.6 Former SidingToronto Hydro Electrical substation 26.1 McNicoll Avenue 26.8 Passmore Avenue 27.4 Milliken 3.2 Milliken to Unionville 27.5 Steeles Avenue 28.2 Kennedy Road 28.8 Denison Street 29.6 14th Avenue 30.0 CN Toronto Bypassformer Hagerman Diamond 30.4 Highway 407 30.6 Unionville 4.4 Unionville to Centennial 30.8 Enterprise Boulevard 31.4 Rouge River 31.6 Highway 7 31.9 Eureka Street 32.1 former Unionville Station 32.2 Main Street, Unionville 32.3 Mill Stream 32.5 Bruce Creek 32.7 Kennedy Road 33.5 Eckard Creek 35.0 Centennial 1.7 Centennial to Markham 35.1 McCowan Road 35.4 36.4 Robinson Creek 36.6 Snider Drive 36.7 Markham 2.0 Markham to Mount Joy 36.8 Main St Markham 37.8 16th Avenue 38.7 Mount Joy 8.1 Mount Joy to Stouffville 38.8 Bur Oak Avenue 39.2 Castlemore Avenue 40.0 Major Mackenzie Drive 40.5 Little Rouge Creek 42.5 Elgin Mills Road 44.3 Ninth Line 44.7 19th Avenue 45.2 Reeves Way Boulevard 45.9 Hoover Park Drive 46.5 46.7 Main Street, Stouffville 46.8 Stouffville 47.1 2.8 Stouffville to Lincolnville 47.3 Stouffville JunctionToronto and Nipissing Railway, Sutton Branch 47.0 Stouffville Creek 47.1 Millard Street 48.4 Private farm crossing 49.2 Bethesda Road 49.3 10th Line 49.6 Lincolnville UxbridgeProposed, as part of MoveOntario_2020 plan Distances are given in kilometres.

The line begins at Union Station and follows the Lakeshore East line to Scarborough Junction, just east of Scarborough GO Station, without stopping at any stations on that line. It then branches north onto the Metrolinx-owned Uxbridge Subdivision, originally the Toronto and Nipissing Railway. North of Unionville station, the route heads roughly north-east in the direction of the Lincolnville terminus.

References

External links

• GO Transit: Stouffville GO Train & Bus Service Schedule
• Daniel Garcia and James Bow, GO Transit's Stouffville Line