Agincourt GO Station

Agincourt

Location

4100 Sheppard Avenue East
Scarborough, Ontario
Canada

Coordinates

43°47′10″N 79°17′04″W / 43.78611°N 79.28444°WCoordinates: 43°47′10″N 79°17′04″W / 43.78611°N 79.28444°W

Owned by

Metrolinx

Platforms

1 side platform

Tracks

Connections

TTC buses

Construction

Structure type

Brick station building

Parking

342 spaces

Bicycle facilities

Yes

Disabled access

Yes

Other information

Station code

GO Transit: AGGO

Fare zone

History

Opened

7 September 1982

Services

Preceding station		GO Transit		Following station
Kennedy toward Union Station		Stouffville		Milliken toward Lincolnville

Agincourt GO Station^[1] is a GO Transit railway station in the Scarborough area of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, served by Stouffville line trains.

History

The station's track was once used by Toronto and Nipissing Railway and later Grand Trunk Railway and finally by CN Rail. TNR opened a station at Agincourt in 1871^[2] (not to be mistaken for CPR Agincourt station located further east) and was later demolished and not replaced until GO established service in the area in 1982 (and rebuilt a station structure in the 1990s).

Connecting transit

The Toronto Transit Commission's 85 Sheppard East and 190 Scarborough Centre Rocket bus routes links Agincourt Station to Don Mills station in the west, the 85 continues east into Scarborough while the 190 continues express to Scarborough Centre station. The proposed Sheppard East LRT would create a grade-separation of the rail line at Sheppard Avenue East (this started in December, 2009), with a connection from the LRT platform to the GO platform. But now it seems that plans have been made to build a second track from Agincourt to Markham GO so the line will operate on weekends. The Rob Ford administration saw a cancellation of the LRT projects, with an intended Sheppard subway line extension; however, on March 22, 2012 Toronto City council voted to reinstate the Sheppard LRT project and construction should restart sometime within the next few years.

Underpass construction

Since the Sheppard LRT project was a plan back in 2010, it required a grade separation of Sheppard Avenue East and the GO train tracks.^[3] This led contractors from the City of Toronto and TTC to build a bridge for the GO train tracks, while having Sheppard Avenue move under it, as the light rail vehicles would not have been able to cross the GO tracks at ground level.^[4] On July 3, 2012 the underpass was completed and opened to regular traffic, which was five months ahead of scheduled.

Not only does this improve the flow of traffic along Sheppard Avenue, as vehicles no longer have to wait at a rail crossing, it also improves GO train service. The bridge will also allow two-way service on this portion of the line.

Building the bridge also meant that the parking capacity of the station could be expanded. Before the project, parking capacity was only 297 and now it has been increased to 342 spaces.

References

↑ "Agincourt GO Station— TRAIN STATION". GO Transit. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
↑ Jeffrey P. Smith. "C.N.Rys. Agincourt". C.N.Rys. Uxbridge Subdivision. Retrieved 17 December 2014. Station: Agincourt, Subdivision: Uxbridge, Mileage: 55.66
↑ "Sheppard East Light Rail Transit (LRT)" (PDF). Metrolinx. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
↑ Mackenzie, Robert. "NEW ACCESS ROUTES INTO AND OUT OF AGINCOURT GO STATION, STARTING JULY 3". Transit Toronto. Retrieved 7 July 2014.

External links

Media related to Agincourt GO Station at Wikimedia Commons

GO Transit station page for Agincourt GO Station

GO Transit

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

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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

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