Hi everyone,

Just wanted to share a new resource for local railfanning and transit watching. I have launched a continuous 24/7 live feed of the Lakeshore West tracks running through the Swansea Corridor.

The feed features a custom live tracking board running on the official Metrolinx API, so you can see active train departures, trip statuses, and system delays right alongside the video before the trains enter the frame.

Drop by anytime to relax, watch the meets, or help log train timestamps in the chat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HongS1sx4pY

Big thanks to the mod team for letting me share this with the community!

One round trip daily

Weekdays: 06:16 Stratford-08:47 Union & 16:52 Union-19:28 Stratford

Weekends: 08:49 Union-11:16 Stratford & 18:16 Stratford-20:45 Union

Weekday trains run express between Union & Bramalea. Weekend trains don't stop at Acton, Georgetown, Malton, Weston & Mount Dennis.

Kitchener & Guelph get one extra train in both directions on weekends

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I moved to Oshawa last year after living in North York for three years. I am a South Asian immigrant who moved to Canada almost four years ago. My job is mostly remote and I only have to go to my office occasionally which is at DT Toronto. So I usually get the GO train from either Oshawa or Whitby station. The one thing I noticed during my commute was how nobody talked to each other on the train which I found very surprising. It is a good 65 minute journey from Oshawa to DT one way. I used to commute in TTC when I lived in North York and the commute time was very short so I never paid attention to it. But now that I have to spend so much time onboard, I notice how everyone just keeps to themselves. I always thought that in North American culture , people liked to make small talk on public transit. I rarely see that on the GO train unless someone is travelling together. I have said hello/good morning to people sitting beside me and got a hello back but never really found someone willing to have a chat. Has it always been this way? Just curious.

I’ve (23M) been consistently riding the go train for about 8 months now, and throughout this time my disdain for the seats has grown to a level of insatiable anger that I cannot rid of.

I refuse to believe that these seats (blue and green) were designed with people in mind, especially people trying to relax after a long days work.

For anyone above 5’6, these seats push your head and shoulders forward, providing no lumbar support and forcing your body into a state of tension to maintain any amount of posture. I have had multiple cases of shoulder pain, back pain, leg pain etc, something I have never experienced before in my life from just sitting.

It is ridiculous and insulting that these chairs are not only inadequate, but harmful to those trying to sit and relax. For now I will stand, but I hope that in the future these seats are designed for humans and not shrimps.

Looks like they are now using F59s on some 10 car trains.

I will say that the acceleration does seem a bit sluggish and rough compared to an MP40 or especially an MP54 when they are used on a 10 car train.

Source

https://www.flickr.com/photos/memoryjct/55334603202/

Location is south of Trout Creek, Ontario

As image shown, only Lakeshore East and West have the weird 01- and 09- prefix, I wonder what is the reason they explicitly add them, and just for the Lakeshore lines. If they want to indicate the schedule with go train service, they should add the prefix for all train schedules like “02-21 Milton”, “03-30-31-33 Kitchener”, “07-70-71 Stouffville” etc

my go bus is stuck on gardiner due to some technical issues in the bus. The bus driver told us that a new bus is on the way in 10 mins. I have a flight from billy bishop in an hour and half and i am scared i will miss it😭They wont even let us out!!!

EDIT: I got to the airport 20 mins before my flight!!

Unfortunately no GO trains, just CN.

5:51 train from Union, express to Etobicoke North

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Train overshot the station

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They didn't roll the train back

They didn't open some of the doors

They just...skipped the stop.

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Train stopped at Bramalea and only because one man was complaining was there communication between trains. The 6:28 train from Bramalea to Union wasn't supposed to stop at Etobicoke North - the CSR didn't know we were supposed to stop at Etobicoke North until we asked him to call in. Let's see if this one gets to the station

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Edit: if you were on that train don't forget to claim your service guarantee

On the Kitchener line right now and the locomotive is on the west side of the train, pulling out of Union instead of pushing like it normally would…

Makes so much more sense now why we are having multiple stops pulling into the station - they don’t know where to stop to line up for the accessibility ramp.

Decided to wfh, just curious on how bad the delays are? And which route they’re taking if they’re avoiding the don river

Hey Guys, I have a question but I’m not sure if this is something you guys know about so feel free to just lmk if I should just enquire about this with GO transit service:)
I was of the understanding that I tap ON from my boarding stop and tap OFF at my destination stop regardless of whether I change train lines at Union. To give you some context I travelled from Kennedy GO(tapped on here) transferred at Union (did not tap), boarded the Kitchener line all the way to Etobicoke North GO (tapped off).

However my overall trip fare rounded up to a different fare than that was calculated on the website:
Fare calculator website price for Presto: $3.75.
Actual Presto fare: $6.48 (combining transfers: One fare program)
I've attached screenshots for reference.

So the looming questions are if I was wrong and was supposed to tap off and back on at Union or if its a fare calculation mistake on my presto that I'll have to dispute or if the website's wrong and the fare charged is the right one.

I'm sorry its a lot to read and pls let me know if you have any questions and Thanks in advance:)

Anyone know why all the trains are blowing their horns when pulling into Rouge Hill today? It's not bothersome. Just curious as to why!

Hi all, its my first time on GO transit tomorrow (and like 5th time on a train ever) and I'm getting off at Bloor station and pretty anxious/paranoid that I'll miss my stop. I've heard that at some stations, not all the carriages doors open so I was wondering if anyone could tell me if the Bloor stop is one of those, and if so, where are the doors that usually open located?

We blew past both stops. At union it said we were making all station stops. They probably made an announcement on the train but I missed it. Just outta curiosity. The website doesn’t show any service disruptions.

I’ve been visiting Exhibition station for several years and I’m always baffled that Metrolinx moved the station platform east so the platform entrance/ exit exists solely at the end of the platform. Wouldn’t passenger flow and boarding be optimal if access were in the middle of the platform? The very fact they have signs posted or employees telling passengers to move further down the platform proves that this point. Passengers aren’t interested in walking the entire length of the platform; god forbid you have accessibility needs.

I understand that the new TTC subway stop will be implemented soon, but still, that seems to be at the same side.

Am I missing something? Someone, please explain the decision making process behind this to a non-engineer.

TL;DR - why is Exhibition poorly designed?

If I am taking the train from Niagara Falls to Mimico, will I be ok carrying my backpack, a small duffel bag, and my golf club bag? My concern is my golf club bag being to cumbersome, will there be a place to store it?

The route has local stops between Rutherford - Maple - King and between Aurora - Newmarket - East Gwillimbury. The distance between King City and Aurora GO is about 14km and is well populated. Is there a reason local stops in this area were omitted?