Burlington GO Station
railway station in Ontario, Canada
Burlington GO Station is a railway station and bus station in the city of Burlington, Ontario, serving GO Transit's Lakeshore West line. It has been the main terminal for Burlington Transit since 2025 and houses its customer service desk. The station is located at 2101 Fairview Street south of the Queen Elizabeth Way between Brant Street and Guelph Line.
Overview
It is a stop on the Lakeshore West line GO train service, and was, for a time, the western terminus of the rail services. Most peak-hour and off-peak trains now terminate service at Aldershot or West Harbour, and a few trains link Hamilton GO further to the west.
There are extensive parking facilities on both the north and south sides of the station. A large multi-level parking structure opened in 2008, significantly expanding the parking capacity of the station. Burlington Transit serves the south side of the station, connected by wheelchair accessible tunnels under the tracks.
History
The original Great Western Railway station was built in 1855, just west of Brant Street, about half a mile west of the current GO Station. With the building of the Hamilton & Northwestern Railway in 1877, this location became a connection known as Burlington Junction.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4999238. Authority coordinates are 43.341, -79.809. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2025, 2008, 1855 and 1877.
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This entry incorporates text from “Burlington GO Station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.