Whitby GO Station

For the railway station in Whitby, England, see Whitby railway station.

Whitby GO Station is a train and bus station in the GO Transit network^[1] in Whitby, Ontario, Canada. It is a stop on the Lakeshore East line and was the eastern terminus of the dedicated GO Transit right-of-way until those tracks were extended to Oshawa in 1995. There are connections by local Durham Region Transit routes within Whitby and Durham Region.

Whitby
General information
Location	1350 Brock Street South Whitby, Ontario[1]
Coordinates	43°51′54″N 78°56′17″W
Owned by	Metrolinx
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Durham Region Transit   Megabus
Construction
Parking	2,958 spaces[1]
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Station code	GO Transit: WH
Fare zone	93[1]
History
Opened	December 4, 1988 (1988-12-04)
Passengers
2018	1,000,000[2]
Services
Preceding station GO Transit Following station Ajax towards Union Station Lakeshore East Oshawa Terminus Lakeshore East (planned expansion) Thornton's Corners towards Bowmanville

Station layout

The station is west of Brock Street on the south side of Highway 401.^[1] The main station building and bus terminal are on the north side of the railway with the island train platform between the two GO Train tracks connected by tunnels. Facilities inside the station building include the ticket agent, waiting room, and public washroom. The bus loop is north-east of the building, and the passenger pick-up/drop-off area is directly in front.

There are about three thousand parking spaces available, and carpool parking is permitted. The majority of the parking, including a multi-storey parking structure,^[3] is on the south side across the CN freight tracks and can be reached by a pedestrian bridge.^[4]

History

Whitby Junction c.1906

The Whitby Junction Station was built by the Grand Trunk Railway in 1903, at the foot of Byron Street near where the current GO Station is. It closed in 1969, and in 1971 the building was moved; first to the north-east corner of Victoria Street and Henry Street for use as an art gallery, and then in 2005 relocated across the street into Whitby Iroquois Park at the north-west corner of the intersection.^[5]

The southerly terminus of the Whitby, Port Perry and Lindsay Railway was at the harbour in Whitby, and that line linked with the Grand Trunk Railway a short distance east of the station.^[6]

Connecting buses

GO Bus

• 90 - Lakeshore East Bus (night-time only)
• 96 - Oshawa/Finch Express Bus^[7]

Public Transit Vehicle #8575 Picking Up Passengers At Whitby Go Station in Southern Ontario on a relatively frigid evening

Durham Region Transit

• 301 to Taunton Road via West Whitby
• 302 to North Campus Terminal
• 302B to Anderson Road/Duggan Avenue (rush-hour only)
• 319 to Taunton Road via Garden/Anderson Streets
• 392 to Ontario Shores
• 905A to Harmony Terminal
• 905C to Uxbridge via Port Perry
• 917 to Pickering Parkway Terminal (west), Oshawa Centre Terminal (east)

Long-distance buses

• Megabus: Toronto - Montreal^[8]

See also

• Whitby Rail Maintenance Facility, a nearby GO Transit rail facility

References

1. "Whitby GO Station Information". GO Transit. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
2. "Drivers of Ridership and Revenue" (PDF). Metrolinx. 2019-02-07. p. 4. Retrieved 2019-01-31.
3. "Whitby GO station opens new four-storey parking lot". durhamregion.com. February 24, 2010. Retrieved March 22, 2014. Additional 1,400 spaces to provide enhanced services to users
4. "Whitby GO Station Bridge". Dineen Construction Corporation. 2011. Retrieved March 22, 2014. Pedestrian bridge at Whitby GO Station - Value $5,500,000. Dineen constructed this new pedestrian bridge to provide an additional access point from the centre platform to the South GO parking lot.
5. "Station Gallery History". Retrieved March 22, 2014.
6. Brown, Ron (2011). In Search of the Grand Trunk: Ghost Rail Lines in Ontario. Toronto: Dundurn Press. ISBN 978-1554888825. Retrieved March 22, 2014.
7. "96 Oshawa/Finch Express GO Bus Schedule" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-07-23. Retrieved 2015-05-18.
8. "Bus Stops". Megabus. January 6, 2019.

External links

• GO Transit station page for Whitby GO Station

• Media related to Whitby GO Station at Wikimedia Commons
• Media related to Whitby Junction Station at Wikimedia Commons