Richmond Hill GO Station

Preceding station	GO Transit			Following station
Langstaff towards Union Station		Richmond Hill		Gormley towards Bloomington

Richmond Hill GO Station is a train and bus station in the GO Transit network located in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. It was the northern terminus of the Richmond Hill line train service from the service's inception in 1982 until the opening of Gormley GO Station on December 5, 2016.^{[citation needed]}

Of all the Richmond Hill line stations, this is the only station that has a reduced length platform which accommodates only up to an L8 consist, a trainset consisting of eight Bombardier BiLevel Coaches and at least one locomotive. Beginning in the spring of 2015, the platform was scheduled to be extended to allow 12-car trains. A pedestrian bridge over Major Mackenzie Drive was built, and a new station building was planned but has not been built.^[2] The train layover facility in Richmond Hill was opened in 2014.^[3]

History

The original Richmond Hill railway station was a single storey clapboard building, located on the north side of Centre Street East, just a short distance north of the current station. Built in 1906 by the James Bay Railway, the station was closed by Canadian National Railway in 1968 and the building was relocated in 1979 to Richmond Green, at Elgin Mills Road and Leslie Street, to serve as a clubhouse for local minor soccer teams.^[4]

Connecting buses

York Region Transit:

• 4 Major Mackenzie (West)
• 25 Major Mackenzie (East)
• 86 Newkirk-Red Maple

GO Transit:

• 61 Bloomington GO Station to Union Station Bus Terminal^[5]

References

External links

• Media related to Richmond Hill GO Station at Wikimedia Commons
• GO Transit station page for Richmond Hill GO Station