The weekday trains will benefit people from Stratford who wish to go to east for the day. The week-end schedule will allow people from Toronto, etc. to attend a matinée at the Stratford Festival and return the same day. This has been impossible since VIA discontinued trains #85 and 88.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/stratford-ontario-daily-go-train-service-july-9.7167983
https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1007310/ontario-extending-go-train-service-to-stratford
