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Greenwood Yard

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Greenwood Yard provides storage, inspection and running maintenance for the Line 2 revenue fleet, and contains major overhaul and repair shops for the entire subway fleet. Greenwood Yard is also a centre for the servicing and operation of workcars used by the Track and Structure Department to repair
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The yard contains 5 buildings, two of which are the General Overhaul and Repair Shop (a.k.a. Greenwood Shop) with a floor space of 185,000 square feet (17,200 m), and the carhouse for inspection, minor repairs and washing. The Greenwood Shop has specialized shops for heavy overhauls of subway
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yards, operates 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Yard activity is minimal during the peak service periods when many trains are in revenue service. The yard is particularly busy in the evening and early morning hours to service and maintain the subway fleet after which the trains are put into
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On the BD line, extra storage space for the T1 fleet will be provided by reopening Keele Yard, adding a storage track at Kipling, converting a dual-gauge delivery track at Greenwood to a storage track, and consolidating the Track & Structures fleet of work cars at
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for the delivery of subway cars from the manufacturer. However, circa 2013, the TTC removed the standard gauge track to make more room for subway car storage. As of 2016, the standard gauge siding had been severed from both the yard and the railway mainline.
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stations; the wye allows both east- and westbound mainline trains access to the yard. The arrangement allows for trains to be added into or taken out of service with minimum disruption to ongoing operations.
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Prior to construction, most of the yard site used to be a clay quarry that later became Harper's Dump, Toronto's main landfill in the 1930s. The site also contained some residences which were demolished.
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Greenwood Yard is home to approximately half the Commission's fleet of trains and work cars. The yard regularly houses the majority of the fleet of
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cars and components as well as stores. The Greenwood Shop is operationally separate from the carhouse servicing the Bloor–Danforth subway fleet.
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In May 1965, the Greenwood Yard was put into partial service for some repair work. Heavy maintenance of subway bogies was transferred from the
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and technology differed between lines 2 and 3, ICTS cars had to be transported by truck to Greenwood for major maintenance work.
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When it opened, the yard had a storage capacity for 244 subway cars. The yard currently has a 328-car storage capacity.
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Closeup of the former standard gauge siding between the yard and the railway mainline.
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A subway train about to enter Greenwood yard as seen from above the Greenwood Portal
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Greenwood is one of two subway yards on Line 2, the other being the much smaller
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On February 26, 1966, the yard went into full service with the opening of
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Spanning 31 acres (13 ha), the Greenwood Yard is located at 400
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The Greenwood Yard is connected to the Bloor–Danforth line by a
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When it opened, the yard had a railway siding and some four
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The Greenwood Yard also performed heavy maintenance on the
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with support buildings that service subway vehicles on
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Harper's Dump, also known as the Greenwood Avenue Fill
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rail yard
Line 2 Bloor–Danforth
Toronto subway
Keele Subway Yard
Greenwood Avenue
Danforth Avenue
multi-level wye
Donlands
Greenwood
T1 subway cars
S series
Line 3 Scarborough
McCowan Yard
gauge
Toronto Transit Commission
Hillcrest Complex
Line 2 Bloor–Danforth
rail
dual gauge
4 ft 10+78 in
standard gauge
track
Relief Line
Kipling Yard
"TTC Greenwood Yard"
Google Maps

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