Whitby Rail Maintenance Facility
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Whitby Rail Maintenance Facility | |||||
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 Facility seen from GO Train in 2026 | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | 625 Victoria Street East, Whitby, Ontario[1] Canada | ||||
| Coordinates | 43°51′50″N 78°55′05″W / 43.8639°N 78.9181°W | ||||
| Owned by | Metrolinx | ||||
| Construction | |||||
| Structure type | Rail yard and locomotive and coach maintenance facility | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 2018 | ||||
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The Whitby Rail Maintenance Facility is a GO Transit rolling stock maintenance facility in Whitby, Ontario, Canada. The depot lies between Victoria Street East and GO Transit's Lakeshore East line just east of South Blair Street. It is a secondary depot, the primary depot being the Willowbrook Rail Maintenance Facility along GO Transit's Lakeshore West line.[2]
Plenary Infrastructure, a consortium, is responsible for maintenance and repairs to the facility under a 30-year contract.[2] Alstom maintains rolling stock within the facility.[3] Metrolinx owns the facility.[4]
In its planning stage, the depot was originally called East Rail Maintenance Facility, but by opening day became known as the Whitby Rail Maintenance Facility.[2][4] By 2015, the consortium Plenary Infrastructure was awarded a $859.2-million contract to design, build and finance the facility, and maintain it for 30 years.[2] Of the $859.2-million contract cost, the Province of Ontario contributed $764.4 million and the federal government $94.8 million.[4] Construction started in the summer of 2012 with Construction Substantial Completion awarded on March 14, 2018.[5]
The depot will support GO Transit Regional Express Rail, offering faster, more frequent commuter train service across the Greater Toronto Region.[4] Another reason for building the Whitby Rail Maintenance Facility was to reduce the operational risk of having only one depot. It provides operational flexibility under emergency situations in case there are operational issues at the Willowbrook Rail Maintenance Facility).[1]
