The entire History of the London GO Train 

On May 12, 2022, the Conservative Party of Ontario promised that if they were reelected, they would "invest an additional $160 million to improve the speed and frequency of GO train service between London and Toronto". This would presumably address the main issue with the train, which is that it is ridiculously slow between Kitchener and London due to the 30mph (50 km/h) speed restrictions on what was historically a 70 mph (112 km/h) railway. The Conservative party won the election with majority, so they had all the power necessary to upgrade the railway, but once they were elected they conveniently forgot about their promise to make the London GO train an actually useful service.

to add my own bit of information about the Service to london. near the end they started kicking the GO out of the station and making it sit in the CN london east yard until morning, where it would scooch out and resume morning service. which was a very funny occurance to see considering it came by complete surprise.

I will miss GO Trains to London

I made a point of taking it before the service stopped. At four hours, my wife and I brought cards and adult beverages. After Kitchener we had the lower portion of the car to ourselves.

It was a doomed concept from day 1. Via rail is 2 hours. Driving is 2 hours. 4 hours on a Go train was never going to be viable. Flix bus is 2.5 hours. Greyhound is 2.5 hours.

Fact: Im pretty sure its not called the "Bramalea Local" however I call it that because its a Union Station - Bramalea train so yea.

It would have been nice if they actual ran service back to Kitchener when it left London. I would have been able to catch an evening Stratford show and be back home same day.

Interesting video! Nice to know it's history!

Why were the double F59s banned? Having rode daily long routes when the F59s were primary locomotives, I can atest to the frequency of these locomotives breaking down and needing a tow into the closest station by a CN locomotive. The double F59s sounded like a brilliant idea.

8:38 Oh hey, the train left London not too late that evening, a bit after 8:30 PM. I actually got a video of it on its way back to Kitchener in London.

We need a go train running from London to windsor and they need to add small stations in all the small towns along the via/cn tracks and connect to tecumseh mall, Windsor Airport and Devonshire Mall. I live in essex county so I know all the small towns around here. but to start from windsor it could start at Windsor via, take the etr tracks to the cn tracks, then the first stop would be howard ave & etr tracks, 2nd stop would be dougall ave & etr tracks, the 3rd stop would be Devonshire Mall, 4th stop would be windsor Airport, 5th stop would be between Jefferson and Queen Elizabeth, 6th stop tecumseh mall (also a bus station), 7th stop in the town of Tecumseh, 8th stop near russel woods, 9th stop Emeryville, 10th stop Belle River, 11th stop, Rochester Place, 12th stop, Stoney Point, 13th stop Light House Cove, 14th stop Tilbery, 15th stop Chatham 16th stop Thamsville, 17th stop Bothwell, 18th stop Newbury, 19th stop Glencoe, 20th stop Mt Brydges, 21st stop Komoka, 22nd stop Hyde park, 23rd stop wonderland, 24th stop London train station. Now it wouldn't have to be all these stops this is just my idea.

Frankly, the service had too many drawbacks: - there were multiple VIA trains a day between Toronto and London (4, now 5, via Brantford plus the one via Kitchener) - You had to use an e-ticket for travel to our from any station west of Kitchener - it was too slow (around 4 hours) - no option to buy (or receive) food onboard, unlike on the VIA train

Upgrades to the line should be funded since there's clearly a demand for it so this service can return

i saw the last run to london

my dad drive the london line for 2 years

is Railfanner wtih train GO

GO is a commuter service, and nobody in their right mind would commute 4hrs in one direction. For this service to be viable, the travel time has to be cut by half if not more, but existing infrastructure and rolling stock just can't support that.