Danforth GO Station

Danforth

Location

213 Main Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada

Coordinates

43°41′12″N 79°17′57″W / 43.68667°N 79.29917°WCoordinates: 43°41′12″N 79°17′57″W / 43.68667°N 79.29917°W

Owned by

Metrolinx

Platforms

1 side platform, 1 island platform

Tracks

Connections

Main Street (TTC)

506

TTC buses

Construction

Bicycle facilities

Racks

Disabled access

Yes

Other information

Station code

GO Transit: DAGO

Fare zone

History

Opened

1883

Rebuilt

1974

Services

Preceding station		GO Transit		Following station
Union Station Terminus		Lakeshore East		Scarborough toward Oshawa
Union Station Terminus		Stouffville		Kennedy toward Lincolnville

Danforth GO Station is a railway station^[1] on GO Transit's Lakeshore East line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The station is situated in the east end of the old City of Toronto, at Main Street, south of Danforth Avenue. The TTC's Main Street station on the Bloor–Danforth line of the subway is a short distance to the north, but is not connected to it directly.

Select trains on the GO Transit Stouffville line stop at the station as part of a year-long pilot project that began on February 2, 2015. Other Stouffville trains pass through the station without stopping.^[2]

History

Because of a lack of available land to expand their existing downtown yard, the Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) decided to build a new freight yard on farmland south of Danforth Avenue where the line to Montreal crossed Dawes Road, which had to be closed and traffic diverted to a new street called Main. The yard had a capicity of 420 cars and could store 31 locomotives in a roundhouse with adjacent repair shops.

Danforth station in 1953

The York Railway Station was built on the north side of the tracks just east of Main Street around 1883. The GTR became part of Canadian National Railways in 1923 and by the 1940s the yard was no longer used for freight and the roundhouse was demolished.^[3] Under Canadian National the station became Danforth Railway Station.^[4] The original GTR station building was demolished in 1974 and the current GO Transit facility was built in its place.^[3]

Main-Danforth has been identified by Metrolinx as a transportation mobility hub as it is located at the interchange of two or more current or planned regional rapid transit lines.^[5]

Connecting transit

Although the 506 Carlton streetcar, and 64 Main and 135 Gerrard bus routes pass on Main Street there are no stops immediately beside the GO Station. Similarly Main Street subway station on the Bloor–Danforth line is over 300 metres distant, to the north of Danforth Avenue.

References

↑ "Danforth GO Station— TRAIN STATION". GO Transit. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
↑ http://www.gotransit.com/public/en/updates/schedulechanges.aspx
1 2 "Toronto East". All Aboard Toronto – Railways and the Growth of a City. Toronto Public Library. Retrieved May 2013. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
↑ "York Railway Station negative". Toronto Public Library. 1953. Retrieved May 2013. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
↑ "Main-Danforth Mobility Hub Profile" (PDF). Metrolinx. September 19, 2012. Retrieved May 2013. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)

External links

Media related to Danforth GO Station at Wikimedia Commons

GO Transit station page for Danforth GO Station

GO Transit

Lakeshore West line	Union Exhibition Mimico Long Branch Port Credit Clarkson Oakville Bronte Appleby Burlington Aldershot Hamilton West Harbour Confederation ^† Grimsby ^† St. Catharines ^‡ Niagara Falls ^‡

Milton line	Union Kipling Dixie Cooksville Erindale Streetsville Meadowvale Lisgar Milton

Kitchener line	Union Liberty Village ^† Bloor St Clair ^† Mount Dennis ^† Weston Etobicoke North Malton Bramalea Brampton Mount Pleasant Georgetown Acton Guelph Breslau ^† Kitchener (Kitchener Central ^†)

Barrie line	Union Spadina ^† Lansdowne ^† Caledonia ^† York University (Downsview Park ^†) Rutherford Maple Kirby ^† King City Aurora Mulock ^† Newmarket East Gwillimbury Bradford Innisfil ^† Barrie South Allandale Waterfront

Richmond Hill line	Union Oriole Old Cummer Langstaff Richmond Hill Gormley Bloomington ^†

Stouffville line	Union Danforth Kennedy Lawrence East ^† Agincourt Finch East ^† Milliken Unionville Centennial Markham Mount Joy Stouffville Lincolnville

Lakeshore East line	Union Danforth Scarborough Eglinton Guildwood Rouge Hill Pickering Ajax Whitby Oshawa Thornton's Corners ^† Oshawa Central ^† Darlington ^† Bowmanville ^†

Union Pearson Express	Union Bloor Weston Pearson Airport

Bus terminals	Ajax Barrie Bramalea Brampton Erin Mills Finch Kitchener McMaster Newmarket Oshawa Renforth Gateway ^† Richmond Hill Centre Scarborough Centre Square One Union Winston Churchill ^† Yorkdale York Mills

Miscellaneous	History Fares Park and ride Infrastructure Willowbrook Yard Bombardier BiLevel Coach MPI MP40PH-3C GO-ALRT Bus routes

See also	Metrolinx Presto card The Big Move

† - Future station ‡ - Limited excursion train service

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