Richmond Hill
General information
Location6 Newkirk Road
Richmond Hill, Ontario
Canada
Coordinates43°52′29″N 79°25′35.4″W / 43.87472°N 79.426500°W / 43.87472; -79.426500
Owned byMetrolinx
Platforms1 side platform
Tracks3
Connections York Region Transit
Construction
Structure typeStation building with public washroom and waiting room
Parking1,229 spaces
Bicycle facilitiesyes
AccessibleYes
Other information
Station codeGO Transit: RI
Fare zone50
History
OpenedMay 1, 1978 (1978-05-01)
Services
Preceding station GO Transit Following station
Langstaff
towards Union Station
 Richmond Hill Gormley
towards Bloomington
Former services at CN station
Preceding station Canadian National Railway Following station
Thornlea
toward Toronto
 Capreol – Toronto Gormley
toward Capreol

Richmond Hill GO Station is a train and bus station in the GO Transit network located in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. It was the northern terminus of the Richmond Hill line train service from the service's inception in 1982 until the opening of Gormley GO Station on December 5, 2016.

Of all the Richmond Hill line stations, this is the only station that has a reduced length platform which accommodates only up to an L8 consist, a trainset consisting of eight Bombardier BiLevel Coaches and at least one locomotive. Beginning in the spring of 2015, the platform was scheduled to be extended to allow 12-car trains. A pedestrian bridge over Major Mackenzie Drive was built, and a new station building was planned but has not been built.[1] The train layover facility in Richmond Hill was opened in 2014.[2]

History

Original station in 1911

The original Richmond Hill railway station was a single storey clapboard building, located on the north side of Centre Street East, just a short distance north of the current station. Built in 1906 by the James Bay Railway, the station was closed by Canadian National Railway in 1968 and the building was relocated in 1979 to Richmond Green, at Elgin Mills Road and Leslie Street, to serve as a clubhouse for local minor soccer teams.[3]

Connecting buses

York Region Transit:

  • 4 Major Mackenzie (West)
  • 25 Major Mackenzie (East)
  • 86 Newkirk-Red Maple

GO Transit:

References

  1. ↑ "Modernizing Stations – Richmond Hill GO Station". GO Transit. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016.
  2. ↑ Ministry of Transportation (December 1, 2014). "New GO Train Station on the Way for York Region". Newsroom. Ontario. Retrieved May 17, 2016. Construction of a new GO Station in Gormley is underway, extending the Richmond Hill line north to Stouffville Road.
  3. ↑ Robert M. Stamp (July 1991). "Rails through Richmond Hill: The Belated Arrival of the Age of Steam". Early Days in Richmond Hill. Archived from the original on March 25, 2016.
  4. ↑ 61 Richmond Hill GO Train and Bus Schedule
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.