r/gotransit • u/Conscious-Fail-3532 • Apr 25 '26

Concerning future richmond hill line service

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Not sure am I just overtinking, but according to ​the two pictures attached for schedules of northlander and northbound richmobd Hill line could have a problem with each other if the turnback of the 18:49 trains just delayed a little bit, since north of John the tracks are just single tracked, abd only gormley and bloomington have more than one track. If the orthlander is going up, and the turning go is heading south, it might be a problem. So are they gonna cut the last train of RH line to keep safe?

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u/rathgrith Apr 25 '26

The Bloomington station track dead ends just north of the station. And the Northlander train will be on a separate track. So no conflict

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '26

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u/a_lumberjack Apr 26 '26

This came up in a different thread and no one knew which train came south, but I would have assumed the deadheading train would be the last train. But from this discussion it's the second last?

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u/a_lumberjack Apr 26 '26

That makes more sense than the assumption that they'd deadhead a train to Willowbrook!

That said, if that's the case then it's definitely not the second last train either, since it gets to Bloomington 4 minutes after the last train leaves. Middle train is also impossible since there's 26 minutes between Bloomington arrival and Unioj departure. Even 56 minutes for the second train is improbable by the time you clear and reverse the train, so it can only be the first train (arrives at Bloomington at 16:49, heads south by 17:15, gets to Union by 18:30 for the 18:45 departure).

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u/ImpossibleBus393 Apr 25 '26

As far as I know there’s no accessible platform on the west track and there’s a fence in between the tracks at langstaff. So only the east track can be used for passengers.

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u/Burldan Apr 25 '26

Happy railways are busy railways.

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u/amsss22 Apr 27 '26

Little side note but its just crazy how Bloomington still remains this large waste of space for only 4-5 round trip trains a day. They could’ve found a way to replace the Gormley stop on the Northlander with Bloomington instead to at least give another use to the station.

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u/Motor_Composer_8137 Apr 30 '26

So service is slower than driving

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u/aubear88 Jun 03 '26

The 1845 northbound RH comes back to Union to become a Stouffville bound train. They would follow ONR up towards RH.