page_title: Grimsby GO Station
section_title: Victoria Avenue site
hierarchical_section_title: Grimsby GO Station / Site research / Victoria Avenue site
caption_attribution_description: English: Randall and Falconbridge Fruit Dealers used the original train station as a fruit shipping operation.
context_page_description: Grimsby GO Station is a proposed commuter rail station on the GO Transit train and bus network in Southern Ontario, Canada. Located in the town of Grimsby in the Regional Municipality of Niagara, it would be a stop on the Lakeshore West line, east of the proposed Confederation GO Station in Hamilton. It was expected to open in 2021 and would have been the first station to open in the planned Niagara extension, which will also include stops at St. Catharines and Niagara Falls stations.
  Three potential sites for the station along the Grimsby Subdivision Canadian National Railway track were considered. The three sites were at Bartlett Avenue in the east, at Victoria Avenue in the town centre adjacent to the Grimsby railway station used by Via Rail, and at Casablanca Boulevard in the west.
  In November 2018, Metrolinx sent a letter to the government of the Regional Municipality of Niagara stating that it was halting the delivery process for this station and other stations in the Niagara extension, as the Government of Ontario was instead seeking private financing of their construction.
context_section_description: The Victoria Avenue site (LA9) is adjacent to the site of the Grimsby railway station built in the 1990s, on the site of the second and third stations in Grimsby that were destroyed by fire. It is part of Lots 9 and 10 of Concession 1 in the historic Lincoln County. The site is on the south side of the Canadian National Railway tracks, extending west of Ontario Street and east of Maple Avenue. It is surrounded by developed areas consisting of residential structures from the late 19th century and early 20th century, as well as  commercial and industrial buildings. Of the six cultural heritage resources identified adjacent to the site, the only one protected by the Ontario Heritage Act is the former Great Western Railway station built in 1853.
  Land at this site is municipally designated for commercial development. The site is at mile 27.4 of the Grimsby Subdivision.
caption: The original Great Western Railway station in Grimsby, built in 1853 and seen here when used by Randall and Falconbridge Fruit Dealers circa 1908. The station is protected by the Ontario Heritage Act.
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