Erindale GO Station is a

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on the

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in the

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, Canada. It is located at 1320 Rathburn Road West, just east of the

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in the Creditview neighbourhood of Mississauga, west of the Square One area. Like many other GO stations, Erindale offers parking facilities, and has a station building which houses ticket sales and includes a waiting room. Erindale acted as a terminus for the midday trains that GO Transit once operated on the Milton Line during the early to mid-1990s, but these trains no longer run. Although ridership on the Milton line has grown beyond GO's expectations, it is not possible to run more trains, because the tracks are already busy with

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freight traffic. In order to increase capacity, GO has extended the platforms to accommodate trains with twelve carriages rather than the previous ten. Erindale was most recently upgraded and is now fully wheel chair accessible. A construction project underwent a new multi-level covered parking structure with 1700 new spaces, new bus loop, dedicated pedestrian pathways, and covered pedestrian bridge to the station tracks. The project was completed in the spring of 2014.

Connecting buses

;MiWay: *20 Rathburn via City Centre Transit Terminal to

Kipling Subway Station Kipling is the western terminus station of Line 2 Bloor–Danforth of the Toronto subway system. The station is served by buses and subway trains operated by the Toronto Transit Commission and is adjacent to the Kipling GO Station on the Milton ...

. *6 Credit Woodlands (on Burnhamthorpe Road) *9 Rathburn-Thomas (on Rathburn Road) *26 Burnhamthorpe (on Burnhamthorpe Road) *38/38A Creditview (on Creditview Road) ;GO Transit: * 21 Milton/Toronto

Credit Valley Railway station

When the

Credit Valley Railway The Credit Valley Railway was a railway located in Ontario, Canada from Toronto to St. Thomas. Chartered in 1871 by Ontario railway magnate George Laidlaw, it operated as an independent company until 1883 when it was leased by the Ontario and Que ...

opened in 1879, it built a station on Erindale Station Road, about a kilometre east of the current GO Transit facility. (The Credit Valley Railway was absorbed by the

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in 1884.) With the decline of passenger traffic on the line, the old Erindale station was demolished in the 1950s.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Erindale Go Station GO Transit railway stations Galt Subdivision Railway stations in Mississauga Railway stations in Canada opened in 1981 1981 establishments in Ontario