Greenwood Subway Yard

TTC's Greenwood yard as seen from above the Greenwood Portal. Note the first car of a yard bound train at the portal platform (bottom of screen)

A work car parked inside the Greenwood shops

TTC's Greenwood shops located at the complex

Greenwood Yard (also known as the Greenwood Complex) is a rail yard and support buildings that service subway vehicles on the Bloor–Danforth line of the Toronto subway system. It is located at 400 Greenwood Avenue, on the west side of Greenwood south of Danforth Avenue. The yard was built in the mid 1960s as the Bloor-Danforth line was being expanded to relieve the Davisville Subway Yard. The site was previously Harper's Dump, the city of Toronto's main landfill in the 1930s.

Greenwood Yard is connected to the Bloor-Danforth line by spur tracks on different levels between Donlands and Greenwood stations; spurs to and from the west-bound tracks pass over top of the east-bound tracks. The arrangement allows for trains to be added into or taken out of service with a minimum of disruption to ongoing operations. There is also a heavy rail freight spur on the south side of the yards connected to the GO Transit Lakeshore East/Canadian National Railway mainline.

Greenwood is the only major yard on the Bloor-Danforth line, since Vincent Subway Yard has been closed. Besides servicing subway cars, Greenwood also services Scarborough RT cars when the work is more complex than what can be handled at the McCowan Yards on the RT line.

Rolling stock

Greenwood Yard is home to approximately half the Commission's fleet of trains and work cars. The yard regularly houses:

• Approximately one third of the fleet of T1 subway cars
• 126 H6 subway cars

Facilities

• marshalling yard
• outdoor storage facility
• specialized shops for heavy overhauls of subway cars and components as well as stores. The shops are operationally separate from the carhouse servicing the Bloor-Danforth subway fleet

See also

• Davisville Subway Yard - services the Y-U-S and Sheppard lines
• Wilson Subway Yard - services the Y-U-S and University lines, and houses new Toronto Rocket subway cars
• McCowan RT Yard - services the Scarborough RT
• Vincent Subway Yard - inactive

References

• Adel, Aaron; Bow, James (2008-02-16). "The Greenwood Subway Yards". Transit Toronto. http://transit.toronto.on.ca/subway/5302.shtml. Retrieved 2009-04-29.