Metrolinx adds 1 daily GO train trip to and from Niagara

Metrolinx announced Friday that it is adding "regular" weekday GO train service to Niagara Falls and St. Catharines in the form of one daily train trip from Niagara to Toronto and back each day.

"Our government is keeping our promise to get people moving and make life better for everyone in Ontario by expanding GO train service to Niagara Falls," said Minister of Transportation JeffYurek in a statement.

The service will start running on Jan. 7, 2019. The province says the morning train that currently starts from Hamilton's West Harbour station at 6:39 a.m. will now start in Niagara Falls at 5:19 a.m., with a stop in St. Catharines before making stopsinto Toronto.

Then in the evening, the existing train trip from Union Station at 5:15 p.m. to West Harbour will continue on to St.Catharinesand Niagara Falls.

"We are very excited to introduce this essential commuter rail service to this market. Regular weekday GO trains have never operated out of Niagara Falls or St.Catharinesbefore," said Leslie Woo, Chief Planning and Development Officer ofMetrolinx, in a statement. "This is new territory and a sign of more great things to come."