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On December 19, 2011, the Georgetown Line was renamed the Kitchener Line as service was extended to Kitchener, making one intermediate stop at Guelph. Another intermediate stop, Acton, opened on January 7, 2013. [2] Weekday midday service was re-introduced in September 2015, with hourly service between Mount Pleasant and Union. [3]
GO Expansion, [5] previously known as GO Regional Express Rail (RER), [6] is a project to improve GO Transit train service by adding all-day, two-way service to the inner portions of the Barrie line, Kitchener line and the Stouffville line, and by increasing frequency of train service on various lines to every 15 minutes or better on five of the corridors.
Kitchener is located in Southwestern Ontario, in the Saint Lawrence Lowlands. This geological and climatic region has wet-climate soils and deciduous forests. Situated in the Grand River Valley, the area is generally above 300 m (1,000 ft) in elevation. Kitchener is the largest city in the Grand River watershed and the Haldimand Tract.
The line uses a Metrolinx-owned railway rail corridor now used by GO Transit, as part of the Georgetown South Project to allow for additional train traffic. The UP Express shares the same path as trains on the Kitchener line, before splitting off onto a
This line, now divided as the Lakeshore East and Lakeshore West lines is the keystone corridor of GO Transit, and continued to be its only rail line for its first seven years of operation. [5] GO's other five lines were opened between 1974 and 1982, significantly expanding the rail network from 86 to 332 kilometres long, and from 16 to 43 stations.
Kitchener station is a railway station located in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, slightly to the northeast of downtown Kitchener, at 126 Weber Street West, near the corner of Victoria Street. It is a heritage building [ 1 ] containing a waiting room and ticket counter built beside a set of tracks also used as a freight yard.
Utilities operations, for gas, water and sewer services within the City of Kitchener are now run by Kitchener Utilities, a subsidiary of the municipality. In 2015, during the construction of the new Ion Light Rail system, remnants of the local streetcar system were unearthed.
This is a route-map template for the Kitchener line, a commuter railway in Ontario, Canada.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.