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Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere
It will be diesel only trains from my understanding, so no speed increase at Burlington.
My understanding however is that Metrolinx plans for the diesel services to run exclusively as express trains, and potentially even as "super express" with a stopping pattern closer to that of the current Niagara GO train services. Based on current schedules, this means a travel time of 1:07.
Metrolinx is also planning on track improvements which should bring that down a bit not related to electrification itself. I know they are planning to make big changes to track speeds around Union Station, for example.
I wouldn't be surprised if travel times are closer to an hour post-GO Expansion, even if still running with diesel services.
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This isn't completely true from my understanding. Because trains will be operating far more frequently, they'll be much shorter trains (current 12 car trains to future 4 or 5 car trains.) These can accelerate and decelerate much faster, and so there should be around a 10 minute or so improvement in speed to Union.
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