[3] It will be built on the south side of an existing freight rail line owned by Canadian Pacific Railway, on a section of land formerly occupied by Ontario Malleable Iron Company until 1977 and later by Knob Hill Farms (1980 to 2000) at 500 Howard Street in downtown Oshawa.

GO Transit planned to work with the City of Oshawa and preserve older façade sections of a building on the station site.

[2] According to a 2023 revised proposal, the Bowmanville extension will be double-tracked between Courtice and Ritson Road GO Stations, and will be located on the south side of, and separate from, CP Rail's Belleville Subdivision.

[1] By 2011, Metrolinx was planning to convert a building that used to be a Knob Hill Farms grocery store at 500 Howard Street into a GO train station located near Simcoe Street, but the plans to build a station there were scrapped due to environmental concerns and the challenge of reaching a fair purchase price with the property owner.

[8] Metrolinx ultimately expropriated the site and took possession of it on July 25, 2014, even though the purchase price had not been settled at that time.