As we have run out of questions, the Subway Trivia Contest has been retired. Q.: How far south on the University line must a westbound Bloor-Danforth train go before it can head north to Wilson Yards? · A.: At the TTS Gloucester Retirement Charter, the chartered train managed to go from eastbound on the Bloor-Danforth line to northbound on the Spadina line by running up the connection to the University line just east of Spadina station, running through St. George station, and stopping just eas...
One of the first questions faced by the traveler in a subway system is: How much will the trip cost? While it should be fairly straightforward to present this information clearly, it...
Seoul Subway Line 7. This station is so deep that the platform is on the B6. Gahui was... Find the depth of the Soongsil University station. Depth is the vertical distance from the exit to the...
Most people know that Toronto has a lost subway station--the infamous Lower Bay--but what's often left out of the story is how it got abandoned by the TTC. After all, why bother to build a station only to mothball it for several decades? The answer lies in a failed TTC experiment to create three subway lines out of two stretches of track: the Yonge-University line (as it was in the 1960s) and the new Bloor-Danforth line. The scheme, known as interlining, meant riders could catch a train at, say,...
Text by James Bow · Many railfans with an interest in Toronto's subway operations will know that when the Bloor-Danforth subway first opened, it was operated as an extension of the Yonge-University subway. This "interlining", which had alternate trains from the Keele and Woodbine terminals travelling either across town to the other Bloor-Danforth terminal, or downtown via the University subway and then north to Eglinton, was a trial operation that lasted for six months following the Bloor-Danf...
Bae Jaehyun, who suffers from cerebral palsy, said, "I'm tired of lukewarm answers such as 'I... installation of subway lifts guarantees all rights for the disabled to move freely." Kwak...
University (Union Station to St George) -- February 28, 1963 ; Bloor-Danforth (Keele to Woodbine) -- February 26, 1966 (Feb 25) ; Bloor West (Keele to Islington) -- May 11, 1968 (May 10)
Large portions of the subway outside Manhattan are elevated, on embankments, or in open cuts, and a few stretches of track run at ground level; 40% of track is above ground.[21] Many lines...
Bryce Demopoulos, a senior at Cornell University, pulled a stranger off of the subway tracks at a subway station in the Bronx just moments before a No. 6 train approached the station at about 6 a.m...
( April 2018 ) The Toronto subway uses a variety of signalling systems on its lines... Yonge–University, Line 2 Bloor–Danforth and Line 4 Sheppard. Since 2022, Line 1 had been fully...