Agincourt GO Station
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Agincourt
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| Location | 4100 Sheppard Avenue East Scarborough, Ontario Canada |
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| Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Metrolinx | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||
| Connections | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | Brick station building | ||||||||||
| Parking | 342 spaces | ||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Yes | ||||||||||
| Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Station code | GO Transit: AGGO | ||||||||||
| Fare zone | 07 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 7 September 1982 | ||||||||||
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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
External links
Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons- GO Transit station page for Agincourt GO Station
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