Two GO trains carrying a combined 400 passengers narrowly avoided a “catastrophic collision” near Burlington in 2024, a Transportation Safety Board report has found.
On March 14, 2024, a GO Transit commuter train departed Aldershot GO Station in Burlington. The conductor and engineer in the front of the train were both preoccupied as they passed a stop signal — the conductor was focused on his tablet and the engineer was addressing an equipment issue in the cab, the report released Wednesday found. The train accidentally entered a track where another GO Train was travelling in the opposite direction at 54 mp/h (86.9 km/h).
