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Toronto-gauge railways are tram and rapid transit lines built to Toronto gauge, a broad gauge of 4 ft 107⁄8 in (1,495 mm). This is 23⁄8 in (60 mm) wider than standard gauge of 4 ft 81⁄2 in (1,435 mm) which is by far the most common track gauge in Canada. The gauge is unique to the Greater Toronto Area and is currently used on the Toronto ...
Newer bored mainline tunnel south of York University station A surface section of Line 1 in the median of Allen Road. The TTC's heavy rail lines – Lines 1, 2, and 4 – are built to the unique Toronto gauge of 4 ft 10 + 7 ⁄ 8 in (1,495 mm), which is the same gauge used on the city's streetcar system.
The Queen subway line was a subway line first proposed in 1911. When Line 1 was first built, a roughed-in station was included under Queen station, with the intention that the Queen subway would be the city's second subway line. The route of the Queen subway line is included in the routes for both the Relief Line and the Ontario Line proposals ...
Line 2 Bloor–Danforth is a rapid transit line in the Toronto subway system, operated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). [4] It has 31 stations and is 26.2 kilometres (16.3 mi) in length. It opened on February 26, 1966, [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] and extensions at both ends were completed in 1968 and again in 1980.
The vast majority of rapid transit systems use 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge.Some of the largest and oldest subway systems in the world use standard gauge in agreement with the country wide dominant usage for track gauge, e.g. London Underground (1863), Chicago "L" (1892), Vienna Metro (1898), Paris Métro (1900), Berlin U-Bahn (1902), New York City Subway (1904), Stockholm ...
Line 4 Sheppard is the newest and shortest rapid transit line of the Toronto subway system, operated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). [2] It opened on November 22, 2002, and has five stations along 5.5 kilometres (3.4 mi) of track, which is built without any open sections in the district of North York along Sheppard Avenue East between Yonge Street and Don Mills Road. [3]
Toronto subway rolling stock. H-5 and T-1 trains parked at the Davisville Subway Yard. The Toronto subway system's rolling stock consists of 880 subway cars for Line 1 Yonge–University, Line 2 Bloor–Danforth, and Line 4 Sheppard. The rolling stock is owned and maintained by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC).
The unique gauge has remained to this day because it is easier to adapt new rail vehicles to this gauge than to convert the entire system to standard gauge. The three heavy-rail lines of the Toronto subway also use the unique gauge; however, the former light-metro Line 3 Scarborough and two light rail lines under-construction ( Line 5 Eglinton ...