Hamilton GO Centre is a GO Transit railway and bus station located at Hunter Street East and Hughson Street South in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The "Centre" in the facility's name refers to how, unlike other GO stations, it doubles as a regional bus terminal for private intercity coach carriers including Greyhound and Coach Canada.
Hamilton GO Centre is the only example of Art Deco railway station architecture in Canada. It opened in 1933 as the head office and the Hamilton station of the Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway. Passenger service on the TH&B was discontinued on April 26, 1981, and the TH&B merged into the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1987, leaving the facility completely disused.
In the early 1990s, GO service was provided out of two different facilities in Hamilton: trains were routed along the CN Grimsby subdivision to a different station 1.6 km to the north, and GO buses operated out of an older bus station at on the northern edge of Hamilton's Central Business District at John Street North and Rebecca Street. In order to better connect GO Transit service to Hamilton's CBD, improve the interface with the Hamilton Street Railway, and consolidate train and bus services at a single site, renovations were undertaken to convert the TH&B station into the Hamilton GO Centre. The new facility, designed by Garwood-Jones & Hanham Architects, opened on April 30, 1996.
Read more about Hamilton GO Centre: Hamilton Street Railway, GO Transit, Bus Platform Assignments
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