Long Island Mike
Senior Member
Low-Level Platform Heights-TUS and other GO Transit Rail Routes...
VC and ETO: I believe the GO Transit system went with low-level platforms from the beginning in 1967
because there were no high-level platforms in the Toronto area especially at Union Station...
Yes-I believe CN and CP would have been against building high-level platforms on GO's
rail routes because of clearances between freight cars and the platforms themselves...
Some would have required parallel "Gauntlet" tracks to be constructed for that reason...
The original GO Transit single level cars were designed when GO was a late 60s era "Experiment"
and then GO committed to low-level platforms when in the late 70s their
bi-level car was designed...
The platforms in Union Station are very low-enough in which GO Transit during the 80s
increased the platform heights in their section for tracks that they control 7 inches...
I do not know if any VIA Rail-controlled platform areas were raised higher...
A way to spot the increased platform height is when you are on the platform edge the
added height concrete is at an angle over the old platform in which the edge is vertically
straight up...I recall in places it was easily visible...
I felt myself that perhaps some high-level platforms would be practical at TUS and at
VIA's stations at Guildwood and Kingston on the Toronto-Montreal Corridor Line for starters...
but they are not absolutely necessary as of yet...
LI MIKE
VC and ETO: I believe the GO Transit system went with low-level platforms from the beginning in 1967
because there were no high-level platforms in the Toronto area especially at Union Station...
Yes-I believe CN and CP would have been against building high-level platforms on GO's
rail routes because of clearances between freight cars and the platforms themselves...
Some would have required parallel "Gauntlet" tracks to be constructed for that reason...
The original GO Transit single level cars were designed when GO was a late 60s era "Experiment"
and then GO committed to low-level platforms when in the late 70s their
bi-level car was designed...
The platforms in Union Station are very low-enough in which GO Transit during the 80s
increased the platform heights in their section for tracks that they control 7 inches...
I do not know if any VIA Rail-controlled platform areas were raised higher...
A way to spot the increased platform height is when you are on the platform edge the
added height concrete is at an angle over the old platform in which the edge is vertically
straight up...I recall in places it was easily visible...
I felt myself that perhaps some high-level platforms would be practical at TUS and at
VIA's stations at Guildwood and Kingston on the Toronto-Montreal Corridor Line for starters...
but they are not absolutely necessary as of yet...
LI MIKE
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