Barrie line

Barrie
The Barrie South platform with BiLevel coach 2029
Overview
OwnerMetrolinx
LocaleGreater Toronto Area,
Simcoe County
Stations12
Service
TypeCommuter rail
SystemGO Transit rail services
Operator(s)GO Transit
Daily ridership9,100 (2019)[1]
History
OpenedSeptember 7, 1982; 42 years ago (1982-09-07)
Technical
Line length101.4 km (63.0 mi)
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+12 in) standard gauge
Operating speed80 miles per hour (130 km/h) [2]
Route map

101.4
Allandale Waterfront
Barrie Yard
95.0
Barrie South
83.7
Innisfil (proposed)
66.4
Bradford
57.4
East Gwillimbury
55.0
Newmarket
Mulock (proposed)
48.1
Aurora
36.5
King City
Kirby (proposed)
29.5
Maple
26.8
Rutherford
20.8
Snider Junction
Canadian National Railway
19.8
York University (permanently closed)
17.1
Downsview Park
Caledonia
Davenport Diamond
CPKC
Bloor–Lansdowne (planned)
Lakeshore West line
North Bathurst Yard
Spadina–Front (planned)
 
0.0
Union
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Barrie line

Barrie is one of the seven train lines of the GO Transit system in the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada. It extends from Union Station in Toronto in a generally northward direction to Barrie, and includes ten stations along its 101.4 kilometres (63.0 mi) route.[2] From 1982 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 2007, it was known as the Bradford line, named after its former terminus at Bradford GO Station until the opening of Barrie South GO Station.

The Barrie line runs on the former Northern Railway of Canada route. This is the oldest operating railway line in Ontario, with passenger service beginning in 1853.[3]

  1. ^ "GO Transit ridership map updated – Find out how your station or lines are doing". Metrolinx. February 13, 2020. Retrieved December 28, 2021.
  2. ^ a b Metrolinx 2010, p. 57.
  3. ^ Town of Aurora.