Whitby GO Station is a train and bus station in the

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network in

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, Canada. It is a stop on the

Lakeshore East line Lakeshore East is one of the seven commuter rail lines of GO Transit in the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada. It extends from Union Station in Toronto to in Durham Region. Buses from Oshawa connect to communities further east in Newcastl ...

and was the eastern terminus of the dedicated GO Transit

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until those tracks were extended to

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in 1995. There are connections by local

Durham Region Transit Durham Region Transit (DRT) is the regional public transit operator in Durham Region, Ontario, Canada, east of Toronto. Its headquarters are at 110 Westney Road South in Ajax, Ontario, and there are regional centres in Ajax, Whitby, and Oshawa. D ...

routes within Whitby and Durham Region.

Station layout

The station is west of Brock Street on the south side of

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. 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, is on the south side across the CN freight tracks and can be reached by a pedestrian bridge.

History

The Whitby Junction Station was built by the

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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. The southerly terminus of the

Whitby, Port Perry and Lindsay Railway The Port Whitby and Port Perry Railway (PW&PP) was a railway running from Whitby, Ontario, Whitby to Port Perry, Ontario, Port Perry, running north–south about 50 km east of Toronto. It was built to connect local grain and logging interes ...

was at the harbour in Whitby, and that line linked with the Grand Trunk Railway a short distance east of the station.

Connecting buses

GO Bus

*90 - Lakeshore East Bus (night-time only) * 96 -

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Express Bus 302 - Brooklin

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

References

External links

* * {{GO Transit GO Transit railway stations Railway stations in Whitby, Ontario Railway stations in Canada opened in 1988 1988 establishments in Ontario