Greenwood Subway Yard

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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)

Greenwood Yard is a rail yard that services subway vehicles on the Bloor-Danforth line of the Toronto subway system. It is located on the west side of Greenwood Avenue 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.

[edit] Rolling stock

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

• Approximately ¹/₃ the fleet of T1 subway cars
• 126 H6 subway cars
• 44 H4 subway cars

[edit] Facilities

• marshalling yard
• outdoor storage facility

[edit] See also

• Davisville Subway Yard - services the Yonge and Sheppard lines
• Wilson Subway Yard - services the Spadina and University lines
• McCowan RT Yard - services the Scarborough RT
• Vincent Subway Yard - inactive

Coordinates: 43°40′40″N 79°19′55″W / 43.67778°N 79.33194°W / 43.67778; -79.33194

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