04-12-2023, 08:32 PM
(04-11-2023, 07:53 PM)nms Wrote: One that that did surprise me was that is a few instances, a train trip started at Union and then passengers were required to transfer to a second train a the Bramalea station. Does this mean that there are some trains waiting at Bramalea to head west while the original train returns to Union Station?
They aren't waiting there, it's just a later train from Union station that you get on.
Two-way, all day hourly service stops at either Bramalea or Mount Pleasant, with only some of the trains continuing on to Kitchener. If it's telling you you need a transfer it's because you chose a train that stops at Bramalea or Mount Pleasant, rather than one of the trains that continues on to Kitchener. When that happens there's an express train that leaves Union about 15 later and skips Bloor, Weston, and Etobicoke, getting to Bramalea or Mount Pleasant about 6 minutes after that non-express that stops at those stations.
E.g. you chose to get on the 16:04 from Union which arrives at Bramalea at 16:40, and then you transfer to the train that arrives at 16:46. But that train was just the 16:19 express from Union, so you should have just waited and got on it instead.