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Via Rail also offered the GO-Via Pak, which allowed holders of GO Transit monthly passes or 10-ride tickets (between applicable fare zones) to ride between Union Station and five GO Stations (Aldershot, Brampton, Georgetown, Oakville, Oshawa) on Via Rail trains which stopped at those stations.
As with other GO Transit lines, integrated train tickets can be purchased through Via Rail to railway stations across Canada. [53] Upon launch, one-way fares on the UP Express between were $27.50, or $19 with a Presto card. By 19 June 2015, the Union Pearson Express was averaging about 3,250 riders a day, or 12 percent capacity. [54]
The TTC discontinued sales of senior and youth tickets in 2019, but remain valid for use until June 2025. [18] TTC senior, student and child tickets from 2009. The TTC has used paper tickets since its founding as the Toronto Transportation Commission in 1921. The first tickets sold 4 for 25 cents for adults, and 10 for 25 cents for children.
The Willowbrook Rail Maintenance Facility is GO's original rail maintenance facility, covering 18,600 m 2 (200,000 sq ft). It is along the Lakeshore West line, directly west of Mimico GO Station, and directly north of Via Rail's Toronto Maintenance Centre. The yard includes four progressive maintenance bays, a locomotive shop, a coach repair ...
The Toronto subway is a rapid transit system serving Toronto and the neighbouring city of Vaughan in Ontario, Canada, operated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). The subway system is a rail network consisting of three heavy-capacity rail lines operating predominantly underground.
Toronto's Union Station is Canada's largest and most opulent railway station. The Montreal architecture firm of Ross and Macdonald designed the building in the Beaux-Arts style as a joint venture between the Grand Trunk Railway and the Canadian Pacific Railway, with help from CPR architect Hugh Jones and Toronto architect John M. Lyle.
The first revenue train arrived in the yard on February 6, 1965, but the yard's official opening was on May 17, 1965. Much of CN's freight operations that were once located in Metropolitan Toronto (notably at the Mimico Yard and the downtown " railway lands ") were moved to the new yard.
In Canada, Edmondson tickets were used on Toronto-area GO Train service from service inception in 1967 until 1989. In Czechoslovakia there were two printing houses that printed Edmondson tickets, the first at Prague from 1898 until 1999, the second at Vrútky , both part of the state transportation publishing house NADAS, since privatized as ...