Pickering GO Station
{{Short description|Railway station in Ontario, Canada}}
{{For|the heritage train station in England |Pickering railway station}}
{{More citations needed|date=July 2012}}
{{Infobox station
| name = 45px Pickering
| type =
| style = GO Transit
| image = Pickering GO Station 2023.jpg
| image_caption = Pickering GO Station in 2023
| address = 1322 Bayly Street
Pickering, Ontario
| coordinates = {{Coord|43|49|50|N|79|05|06|W|region:CA-ON_type:railwaystation|display=inline,title}}
| line =
| other = {{rcb|Canada transit|Durham Region Transit}}
| structure = Station building and tunnels and elevators to platforms
| platform = 3 side platforms (train)
loop with bays (bus)
| depth =
| levels =
| tracks = 3
| parking = 2,508 spaces
| bicycle = Yes
| baggage_check =
| opened = {{Start date and age|1967|5|23}}
| closed =
| rebuilt =
| electrified =
| accessible = Yes
| code = {{GO Transit code|PIN}}
| owned = Metrolinx
| zone = 91
| former =
| passengers = 907,000{{cite web| url=http://www.metrolinx.com/en/docs/pdf/board_agenda/20190207/20190207_BoardMtg_Ridership_EN.pdf| title=Drivers of Ridership and Revenue |page=4 |date=2019-02-07 |publisher=Metrolinx |access-date=2019-01-31}}
| pass_year = 2018
| pass_percent =
| pass_system =
| mpassengers =
| services = {{Adjacent stations|system=GO Transit|line1=Lakeshore East|left1=Rouge Hill|right1=Ajax|line2=Lakeshore East|left2=Toronto|right2=Ajax|type2=Express}}
| other_services_header = Former services
| other_services_collapsible = yes
| other_services = {{Adjacent stations
|system4=Canadian National Railway
|line4=Grand Trunk Main|left4=Port Union|right4=Whitby}}
| map_locator =
}}
Pickering GO Station is a train and bus station in the GO Transit network{{cite web |url=https://www.gotransit.com/en/stations-stops-parking/find-a-station-or-stop/results?stationCode=00147 |title=Pickering GO Station Information |publisher=GO Transit |access-date=February 20, 2019}} located in Pickering, Ontario, Canada. It is a stop on the Lakeshore East line and was the eastern terminus from 1967 until 1990, when service was extended to Whitby and subsequently to Oshawa.
History
File:GTR station Pickering 2.jpg
The previous Pickering station, which had been constructed by Grand Trunk Railway in the early 1900s, had been about 2 kilometres east of the current location at Liverpool Road. Plans for the original GO Transit Lakeshore line called for commuter train service not to go beyond Liverpool Road where the CN York Subdivision tracks joined the CN Kingston Subdivision, because this would interfere with freight trains. No practical site could be found, but there was a large field south of the tracks on the east side of Liverpool Road with more than enough space to accommodate a station building, bus terminal and car parking, with convenient access from Bayly Street. Installation of a new crossover before the overpass at Liverpool Road was required to get to an existing industrial track, so that GO Trains standing at the station platform would be off the main line.{{cite web |url=http://historicaltextarchive.com/books.php?action=nextchapter&bid=63&cid=8 |title=Building GO Transit |author=Wilfred Sergeant |work=8: Locating the stations |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140326024756/http://historicaltextarchive.com/books.php?action=nextchapter&bid=63&cid=8|publisher=HTA Press |archive-date=March 26, 2014}}
When the station opened in 1967 it was a key transfer point between train and bus services.
In 1990 the single platform was supplemented by two more platforms and tracks when GO Transit built a dedicated right-of-way on the north side of the Canadian National tracks. This was part of the project to expand Lakeshore East train service to Ajax and Whitby, and finally to a new terminus at the Oshawa Via Rail station in 1995.
Station layout
=Platforms=
File:Pickering GO Station bridge view 2023.jpg, and Pickering Parkway at Pickering GO Station]]
File:Pickering GO Bridge 2023.jpg
Pickering has three platforms for trains, 1 and 2 which serve trains to Union and trains to Oshawa. Track 3, separated from the other tracks, is closest to the bus bays and station. Track 3 is the original track before the extension to Oshawa, and is no longer being used.
=Pedestrian bridge=
The Pickering Pedestrian Bridge was opened in 2012 between the GO station on its south side of the tracks and Pickering Town Centre, a shopping centre with access to regional bus service on the bridge's north side. The {{convert|250|m|adj=on}} enclosed bridge spans 6 railway tracks, the 14 lanes of Highway 401 and the two-lane Pickering Parkway, a municipal road. At night, the bridge is illuminated by 300 LED lights in rotating shades of lilac, purple, blue and teal making the bridge visible from overflying airplanes. The bridge has received the City of Pickering’s 2019 Urban Design Award and the 2019 Engineering News Record Global Best Projects Award. In 2021, the bridge became a Guinness World Record holder for the longest enclosed pedestrian bridge in the world.{{cite web |url=https://blog.metrolinx.com/2021/09/14/pickering-pedestrian-bridge-declared-longest-enclosed-people-crossing-in-world-by-guinness/ |title=Pickering Pedestrian Bridge declared longest enclosed people crossing in world by Guinness |publisher=Metrolinx |date=September 14, 2021 |accessdate=September 14, 2021 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210914183429/https://blog.metrolinx.com/2021/09/14/pickering-pedestrian-bridge-declared-longest-enclosed-people-crossing-in-world-by-guinness/ | archivedate=September 14, 2021 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://blog.metrolinx.com/2018/09/25/gateway-to-durham-region-officially-lights-up-the-night-sky/ |title="Gateway to Durham Region" officially lights up the night sky |publisher=Metrolinx |date=September 25, 2018 |accessdate=September 14, 2021 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202061948/http://www.metrolinx.com/en/greaterregion/projects/pickering-bridge.aspx | archivedate=December 2, 2020 |url-status=live }} Exterior cladding of the bridge in a metallic mesh proved to be problematic during construction and, along with severe weather, delayed its completion.{{cite web |url=http://www.durhamregion.com/news-story/4358113-pickering-s-go-pedestrian-bridge-inching-along/ |title=Pickering's GO pedestrian bridge inching along |author=Carola Vyhnak |date=7 February 2014 |publisher=Torstar News Services |access-date=February 8, 2014}}
=Parking=
{{as of|2021}}, the station has three parking lots with respectively 585, 780 and 500 spaces plus a multi-level parking garage finished in 2013 or 2014 with 1673 spaces.{{cite web |url=https://www.gotransit.com/en/stations-stops-parking/find-a-station-or-stop/results?stationCode=PIN#drive-info |title=Pickering GO |publisher=Metrolinx |accessdate=September 14, 2021 }}
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Connecting bus routes
File:Pickering GO Station (24320669087).jpg
The station is the Pickering hub for Durham Region Transit local bus services, which evolved from the Bay Ridges Dial-a-Bus in 1970.
- 112C to Burkholder Drive (Seaton)
- 121 to Pickering Parkway Terminal
- 121A to Pickering Parkway Terminal via Sunbird Trail
- PULSE 900B To Oshawa (Pickering Parkway Terminal)
- PULSE 916 to Harmony Terminal (Pickering Parkway Terminal)
- 917 to Oshawa Centre Terminal (Pickering Parkway Terminal)
;GO Transit
- 41 - Hamilton/Pickering
- 90 - Lakeshore East Bus (early morning/late nights)
- 94 - Pickering/Square One via Pearson Airport
References
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External links
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{{GO Station|00147}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20180312024408/http://www.gotransit.com/public/en/improve/projects/pickering/ Pickering GO Station] construction at GO Transit
- {{YouTube|tfyIqAFPe9U|Pickering Pedestrian Bridge in the record books}}, published by CityNews on September 23, 2021
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Category:GO Transit railway stations
Category:Railway stations in the Regional Municipality of Durham
Category:Rail transport in Pickering, Ontario