Newmarket GO Station is a

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in the

GO Transit GO Transit is a regional public transit system serving the Greater Golden Horseshoe region of Ontario, Canada. With its hub at Union Station in Toronto, GO Transit's green-and-white trains and buses serve a population of more than seven millio ...

network located in the Old Davis Tannery Centre on the north side of Davis Drive East in Newmarket,

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, and is a stop on the

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 route. From ...

train service. It is a little over two kilometres east of the Newmarket Bus Terminal, at Davis Drive West and Eagle Street, which is a terminus for GO Bus,

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and Viva BRT services.

History

Newmarket Grand Trunk Railway Station-470 Davis Drive- Newmarket-Ontario-HPC9225-20201024

In 1853 the

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opened the line between Toronto and Collingwood which was acquired by the

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in 1888 and later merged into the Canadian National Railway. Newmarket railway station was built on the south side of Davis Drive by the Grand Trunk Railway in 1900. The original NRC station was subsequently repurposed as a freight shed. The second station building is a one-storey wood clad stick frame building with board and batten siding associated with the

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style. The west side has a projecting bay window flanked by waiting rooms, originally the south room for women and the north room for men. The station building was designated a municipal heritage building in 1987 under the '' Ontario Heritage Act'', and as a federal heritage building in 1992 under the

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. The GO Transit Barrie line is now owned by Metrolinx and the historic Grand Trunk Railway station is owned by the Town of Newmarket. A platform extension and repair project began in March 2014. It also includes the rehabilitation of the parking lot, a new ticket booth with a customer waiting area and improved accessibility features.

Services

Newmarket station has weekday service consisting of 10 trains southbound to

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in the morning, a train northbound to Bradford in the early afternoon, 7 trains northbound to Allandale Waterfront Station in the afternoon and 2 trains northbound to Bradford in the evening and night. At other times, GO bus route 68 operates hourly between Barrie Bus Terminal and Aurora GO Station where passengers can connect to the all-day train service to Toronto. Weekend train service consists of 3 trains southbound to Union station in the morning and 3 trains returning northbound in the afternoon and evening. At other times, the station is served by GO bus route 68 which operates hourly between Barrie Bus Terminal and Aurora GO station, where passengers can transfer to the all-day weekend train service toward Toronto.

Connecting buses

All buses serve the GO station from bus stops on Davis Drive and Main Street.

: * 50 Queensway * 54 Bayview * 55 Davis Drive * Viva Yellow GO Transit: *65

Union Station Bus Terminal The Union Station Bus Terminal is the central intercity bus terminal in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in Downtown Toronto on the second floor of the south tower of CIBC Square, on the northeast corner of Bay Street and Lake Shore Bo ...

/ Aurora GO Station/

East Gwillimbury GO Station East Gwillimbury GO Station is a train and bus station in the GO Transit network located in East Gwillimbury, Ontario, Canada. It is a stop on the Barrie line train service. The station was opened on November 1, 2004.. Services East Gwillimbury ...

*65B

*68 Aurora GO Station/

/ Barrie Bus Terminal

References

External links

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CNR Newmarket

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