TORONTO — Fallout will continue into at least Wednesday, Feb. 4, from Monday’s derailment of a GO Transit train near Toronto Union Station. The commuter rail operator, which ran a special schedule today (Feb. 3) “to support ongoing service recovery.”
CityNews reports that officials for Metrolinx, the provincial transit agency and GO Transit parent, said late today that track repairs at the derailment site had been completed but the signal system “sustained significant damage. Those repairs will take longer to complete, and at this stage we expect the impact to extend into the coming days.”
As a result, the schedule in effect for at least Wednesday morning and perhaps longer will follow the pattern for today, which saw reduced service on all seven GO Transit lines. Three lines — Lakeshore East, Lakeshore West, and Kitchener — will see service at 60-minute intervals, except for 15- to 30-minute headways during morning and evening peak periods. Three others — Milton, Stouffville, and Barrie — will see 30-minute morning and evening peak service, while the Richmond Line will see 60-minute morning and evening peak service. UP Express will operate at 30-minute intervals. Details and updates will be available at the GO Transit website.
The UP Express service between Union Station and Toronto Pearson Airport is slated to return to its usual service at 15-minute intervals on Wednesday after running every 30 minutes today.
Service has been disrupted since a departing train derailed Monday morning, blocking access to many of the tracks at Union Station [see “Low-speed derailment disrupts …,” Trains.com, Feb. 2, 2026]
The CBC reports the train was removed from the derailment site early today.
— Updated at 6:55 p.m. CT to include Wednesday plans. To report news or errors, contact trainsnewswire@firecrown.com.
