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The T-1 built on those advances (such as changing from a rotary-type to a fore–aft, joystick-type controller) while integrating new computer technology (analogous to the New Technology Train of the New York City Subway), creating a more modern train. The T-series cars were the first TTC cars to use AC propulsion, rather than DC propulsion as ...
By 2022, the TTC had decided that the next-generation of subway cars would have a design different from the T1 and TR fleets. Like the TR fleet, riders would be able to walk the full length of the interior of the new trains. Like the T1 trains and unlike the TR fleet, the new trains would consist of three coupled pairs.
Following the introduction of the Toronto Rocket trains on Lines 1 and 4, all the T1 trains were moved to Line 2. The T1s were expected to last until 2026. [91] [92] By the end of 2019, the TTC had proposed an overhaul to extend the T1 fleet's life by 10 years [93] at an estimated cost of $100 million. [94]
The TTC estimated that the T1 fleet's useful life would end in 2026. In 2017, the TTC planned to replace the T1 fleet with 62 new trains, possibly using a successor of the Toronto Rocket type from Bombardier to eliminate the time needed to prototype a different model. [71]
These announcements feature the voice of Susan Bigioni, a TTC employee, who also voiced the announcements for the T1 series and the retired H4, H5, and H6 trains. In December 2023, the TTC was planning to sell five trainsets to Detroit for use on the Detroit People Mover, with two trainsets being retained for preservation. [ 41 ]
With the arrival of the articulated TR trains in 2011, many T1-series trains were transferred from the YUS line to the Bloor–Danforth line. This allowed for the retirement of the H-4 cars, between the fall of 2011 until January 27, 2012, when the last H-4 train made its last run during the morning rush on the Bloor-Danforth line. [7]
By reopening the Keele Yard, the TTC eliminates the deadheading of trains between Keele Station and the Greenwood Yard, and can put trains more efficiently into service at the west end of Line 2. [5] Also, the yard provides extra storage space which became useful when all T1 subway cars were moved from Line 1 Yonge–University to Line 2 with ...
The Toronto Rocket (TR) is the fifth and latest series of rolling stock used in the Toronto subway system in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.Owned and operated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), the trains were built by Bombardier Transportation in Thunder Bay, Ontario, to replace the last remaining H-series trains, as well as increase capacity for the Spadina subway extension to Vaughan that ...