Barrie South GO Station

Coordinates: 44°21′04″N 79°37′39″W / 44.35111°N 79.62750°W

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Barrie South

General information

Location

833 Yonge Street, Barrie
Ontario, Canada

Coordinates

44°21′04″N 79°37′39″W / 44.35111°N 79.62750°W

Owned by

Platforms

Tracks

Bus stands

Connections

Construction

Structure type

Brick station building

Parking

623 spaces

Bicycle facilities

Yes

Accessible

Yes

Other information

Station code

GO Transit: BA

Fare zone

History

Opened

17 December 2007

Services

Preceding station	GO Transit			Following station
Allandale Waterfront Terminus		Barrie		Bradford towards Union Station

Barrie South GO Station is a train and bus station on the GO Transit Barrie line, located in Barrie, Ontario, Canada.

Barrie Transit buses provide public transit access to the rest of the city. As of January 2012, the station is used by about 700 passengers per day,^[1] up from 350 at the time of its opening.^[2]

History

Construction of the station began in June 2007^[3] and the station began operating on December 17, 2007,^[4] with the first train departing at 05:43 that day.^[5]

The station's opening restored GO train service to Barrie, which had been eliminated in the 1990s.

Services

Barrie South station has weekday train service consisting of 7 trains southbound to Union Station in the morning, and 7 trains returning northbound from Union Station in the afternoon. At other times, GO bus route 68 operates hourly to Aurora GO Station where passengers can transfer to the all-day train service to Toronto.^[6]

Weekend train service consists of 5 trains in each direction throughout the day. GO bus route 68 also operates hourly to Aurora GO station or East Gwillimbury GO station where passengers can connect to the hourly weekend train service to Toronto.^[6]

References

^ McInroy, Ian (21 January 2012). "New GO station is ready to go". Barrie Examiner. Retrieved 2012-01-27.
^ Blenkhorn, Leigh (18 December 2008). "A 'wonderful' year for GO user". Barrie Advance. Archived from the original on 2008-12-21. Retrieved 2008-12-30.
^ "Bradford Line - Barrie South GO Station". GO Transit. Retrieved 2007-07-20. ^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ "New GO stations". GO Transit. Archived from the original on 2007-10-12. Retrieved 2007-11-02.
^ "GO Transit Extends Rail Service to the City of Barrie". Transport Canada. 2007-12-16. Archived from the original on 18 December 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-17.
^ ^a ^b "Barrie Line Schedule - table 65" (PDF). GO Transit. 29 June 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 July 2019. Retrieved July 21, 2019.

External links

Media related to Barrie South GO Station at Wikimedia Commons
GO Transit station page for Barrie South GO Station

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v t e GO Transit
Lakeshore West line	Union Station Exhibition Park Lawn † Mimico Long Branch Port Credit Clarkson Oakville Bronte Appleby Burlington Aldershot Hamilton West Harbour Confederation † Grimsby † St. Catharines Niagara Falls
Milton line	Union Station Kipling Dixie Cooksville Erindale Streetsville Meadowvale Lisgar Milton
Kitchener line	Union Station King–Liberty † Bloor St. Clair–Old Weston † Mount Dennis † Weston Etobicoke North Malton Bramalea Brampton Mount Pleasant Georgetown Acton Guelph Breslau † Kitchener (Kitchener Central †)
Barrie line	Union Station Spadina–Front † Bloor–Lansdowne † Caledonia † Downsview Park Rutherford Maple Kirby † King City Aurora Mulock † Newmarket East Gwillimbury Bradford Innisfil † Barrie South Allandale Waterfront
Richmond Hill line	Union Station Oriole Old Cummer Langstaff Richmond Hill Gormley Bloomington
Stouffville line	Union Station Kennedy Agincourt Finch–Kennedy † Milliken Unionville Centennial Markham Mount Joy Stouffville Old Elm
Lakeshore East line	Union Station East Harbour † Danforth Scarborough Eglinton Guildwood Rouge Hill Pickering Ajax Whitby Oshawa Thornton's Corners East † Ritson Road † Courtice † Bowmanville †
Union Pearson Express	Union Station Bloor Mount Dennis † Weston Pearson Airport
Former or proposed station sites	Lawrence–Kennedy York University
Bus terminals	Bramalea Brampton Cornell Finch Highway 407 Kipling McMaster University Richmond Hill Centre Scarborough Centre Square One Union Station University of Waterloo York Mills Yorkdale
Miscellaneous	History Fares Rail services Bus services Fleet Expansion GO-ALRT
See also	Metrolinx Presto card SmartTrack The Big Move
† and italics denotes a future station

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