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Wilson Yard (also known as the Wilson Complex) is the largest of the Toronto Transit Commission's subway yards and bus garages. [1] The subway yard services subway trains on Line 1 Yonge–University. [2] [3] The facility is located on Transit Road north of Wilson Avenue, in the former city of North York (now part of Toronto), between Wilson ...
A Toronto Rocket subway train arrives at Museum station. The station is one of 70 operated along three different subway lines. The Toronto subway system consists of three lines: Line 1 Yonge–University: Canada's first subway line. [26] A U-shaped mostly north–south line that opened in 1954 and was last extended in 2017.
The Toronto subway is a system of three underground, surface, and elevated rapid transit lines in Toronto and Vaughan, Ontario, Canada, operated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). It was the country's first subway system: the first line was built under Yonge Street with a short stretch along Front Street and opened in 1954 with 12 stations.
Runnymede is a subway station on Line 2 Bloor–Danforth of the Toronto subway in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located just north of Bloor Street West , spanning the block east of Runnymede Road to Kennedy Avenue, with bus platforms at the surface level and entrances at both ends.
Lawrence station is one of the deepest stations on the subway system, as it provides a transition in depth between Eglinton station and York Mills station in the Hoggs Hollow valley. It was constructed using the cut-and-cover method down to the platform level. [3] Lawrence was the first station in the network to feature an underground bus ...
Fixed-block signalling was originally used on the Toronto subway since the opening of Toronto's first subway in 1954 and was the first signalling system used on Lines 2 and 4. [109] [110] As of 2022, Lines 2 and 4 use fixed-block signalling but Line 1 no longer does.
Sheppard–Yonge first opened as Sheppard in 1974, when the Yonge–University subway line was extended north from Eglinton to Finch.The extension was planned to open in two stages with Sheppard as the temporary terminus, but construction north of York Mills was delayed by various problems and in 1973, York Mills was opened as the temporary terminus instead; Sheppard and Finch stations opened ...
Wilson station was opened in what was then the Borough of North York as the last station in the 1978 subway line extension north from St. George station.According to historian Mike Filey, Wilson Avenue is a misspelling of Arthur L. Willson, who was a clerk and treasurer of York Township for over twelve years around 1875.