Castle Frank station
Castle Frank | |||||||||||
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| Location | 600 Bloor Street East | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 43°40′25.7″N 79°22′07″W / 43.673806°N 79.36861°W | ||||||||||
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| Platforms | side | ||||||||||
| Connections | Lua error in Module:Adjacent_stations at line 430: "title" is missing from the data page. | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | underground | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 25 February 1966 | ||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||
| 2022[1] | 12,470 | ||||||||||
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Castle Frank is a station on the Bloor–Danforth line of the subway system in Toronto, Canada. It is located at 600 Bloor Street East at Castle Frank Road, near the former location of Viaduct streetcar loop, which was the longtime terminus of the Parliament streetcar.
Entrances
- The main entrance to the station is located at Castle Frank Road and Bloor.
- A second (automatic) entrance at the west end of the station (closer to Parliament Street) is under construction. The much delayed[2] project was scheduled for completion in spring 2012.[3] This was delayed again, and the exit finally opened in December 2012.
History
Castle Frank Station, opened in 1966, is named after the community that it serves. Its streets, and the brook that flows through it, are in turn named after Sir John Graves Simcoe's summer residence in that area overlooking the Don River, which burned down in 1829. The residence was ultimately named after Francis Simcoe, his son.
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Historical marker, located south of Bloor Street adjacent to Castle Frank station, was placed on the approximate site of the historic Castle Frank residence in 1957 -
The subway bridge over Rosedale Valley Road just west of the station
Subway infrastructure in the vicinity
East of the station, the line runs under Bloor Street to use the lower deck of the Prince Edward Viaduct. At the end of the Viaduct it swings to parallel Danforth Avenue on the north side.
Nearby landmarks
Nearby landmarks include Rosedale Ravine, Rosedale Heights School of the Arts, St. James Cemetery and the western end of the Prince Edward Viaduct.
Surface connections
- 65 Parliament to The Esplanade
- 94 Wellesley to Ossington Station
- 94C to Wellesley Station
References
- ^ "Subway ridership, 2022" (PDF). Toronto Transit Commission. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
This table shows the typical number of customer-trips made on each subway on an average weekday and the typical number of customers travelling to and from each station platform on an average weekday.
- ^ Jack Lakey (7 September 2011). "No end of delays for Castle Frank TTC project". Toronto Star. Retrieved 30 December 2011.
- ^ http://www3.ttc.ca/Service_Advisories/Construction/Castle_Frank_Station_exit.jsp
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