Barrie Line

Barrie Line

Barrie is one of the seven train lines of the GO Transit system in the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada. It extends from Union Station in Toronto in a generally northward direction to Barrie, and includes ten stations along its 59.5 miles (95.8 km) route. From 1982 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 2007, it was known as the Bradford line, as that community then constituted the line's terminus. With the opening of the Barrie South station on December 17, 2007, the Barrie nomenclature was restored.

The line runs on the tracks of the Northern Railway of Canada, along the original route of the Ontario, Simcoe and Huron Railway before that was extended far to the north in later years. The Northern was purchased by the Grand Trunk Railway, and thus became part of the Canadian National Railway (CNR) in the early 1900s. CNR referred to the line as the CN Newmarket Subdivision, or Newmarket Sub for short. Metrolinx purchased the entire line from CNR in 2009.

As of January 2012, the Barrie line serves about 7,500 passengers a day (approximately 2 million per year).