TTC yards, garages, and facilities

=Arrow Road=

Arrow Road Garage is a bus garage servicing vehicles in the Arrow Division.

* Location: Arrow Road south of Finch Avenue West
* Year: 1988
* Facility: Bus garage
* Status: active
* Buildings: Yes

* [http://transit.toronto.on.ca/bus/8306.shtml Transit Toronto - Arrow Road Garage]

Birchmount

Birchmount Garage is a bus garage servicing vehicles in the Birchmount Division.

* Location: Birchmount Road and Danforth Road
* Year: 1956
* Facility: Bus garage
* Status: Active

* [http://transit.toronto.on.ca/bus/8304.shtml Transit Toronto - Birchmount Garage]

Davisville

Davisville Yard was opened with the Yonge Subway in 1954. This facility is used to store trains and other rail equipment and perform light maintenance and repairs on the trains. Until the Wilson Complex was opened as part of the Spadina extension in 1978, this was the only yard on this very busy line.

The complex is also home to:

* 1900 Yonge - TTC Administrative Building (McBrien Building)
* Bus platforms for Davisville Station

* Location: Yonge Street south of Davisville Avenue
* Year: 1954
* Facility: Subway yard
* Status: Active
* Buildings: Yes

* [http://transit.toronto.on.ca/subway/5301.shtml Transit Toronto - Davisville Yard]

Eglinton

Eglinton Garage is a bus garage servicing vehicles in the Eglinton Division. It opened in 2002, replacing two older garages, one of which was also called Eglinton Garage. The new facility is sometimes called "Comstock Garage" or "New Eglinton Garage". Prior to being officially named "Eglinton Garage" the working name for this facility was "Comstock Garage". It is still sometimes referred to as "New Eglinton" to differentiate it from "Old Eglinton"; however, this distinction will become less relevant as time passes.

* Year: 2002
* Facility: Bus garage
* Status: Active

* [http://transit.toronto.on.ca/bus/8311.shtml Transit Toronto - Eglinton Garage]

Greenwood Complex

Greenwood Complex is a subway yard and subway maintenance shop on the Bloor-Danforth Subway. Maintenance and storage of trains for the Bloor-Danforth subway are done at Greenwood Carhouse. Equipment repairs and overhauls of subway cars are done at the Greenwood Shops, as well as maintenance of revenue service equipment (turnstiles, etc).

* Year: 1965
* Division: Danforth Subway
* Facility: subway yard, subway carhouse, maintenance shops
* Status: active
* Buildings: Yes

* [http://transit.toronto.on.ca/subway/5302.shtml Transit Toronto - Greenwood Yard]

Hillcrest Complex

* Location: Bathurst Street south of Davenport Road
* Facility: streetcar and bus garage; maintenance shops; administration offices
* Status: active
* Buildings: Yes

* [http://transit.toronto.on.ca/streetcar/4304.shtml Hillcrest Complex]

Hillcrest Complex is the Toronto Transit Commission's (TTC) largest facility and is responsible for most of the maintenance work on the system's surface vehicles, including heavy overhauls, repairs and repainting. It is located adjacent to the intersection of Bathurst Street and Davenport Road.

Hillcrest Yard was opened in 1924 by the TTC to replace smaller facilities inherited from the Toronto Railway Company and Toronto Civic Railways.

The complex consists of:
* D.W. Harvey Shops
* W.E.P. Duncan Shops
* David L. Gunn Building
* H.C. Patten Building
* J.G. Inglis Building
* Davenport Building
* Support Services Building
* Subway Operations Building

Keele/Vincent

Keele/Vincent is the smallest subway yard in the TTC system. The yard consists of a short four-track section of track and tunnels to store cars, and is located between the Dundas West and Keele Stations on the Bloor-Danforth Subway. The capacity of the yard is eight train sets: one in the tunnel and one outdoors on each of the four tracks. Three of the tracks are currently closed off.

Although it may have been sometimes referred to as "Keele Yard", the official name used by the TTC is "Vincent." [ [http://transit.toronto.on.ca/subway/5303.shtml Vincent Subway Yard] ]

* Year: 1966-1978
* Facility: subway yard
* Status: work trains only
* Buildings: No (tunnels only)
* Location: [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Keele+Street+and+Bloor+Street+West,+Toronto,+ON&ie=UTF8&z=18&ll=43.656268,-79.455485&spn=0.001766,0.005407&t=h&om=1 Google Maps]
* [http://transit.toronto.on.ca/subway/5303.shtml Transit Toronto - The Vincent Subway Yard]

Lakeshore

Lakeshore Garage supports the TTC Wheel-Trans fleet of ELF and Orion II buses. Lakeshore opened in 1980 as the main garage for Gray Coach Lines, which moved out in 1991 following the sale of Gray Coach Lines to Stagecoach Holdings. From 1991 onwards the facility has been occupied by Wheel-Trans.

* Year: 1980
* Facility: bus garage
* Status: Active
* Buildings: Yes - Garage and repair shop, secondary storage garage
* Location: [http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=43.655573,-79.330089&spn=0.000916,0.002704&t=h&z=19&om=1 Google Maps]

Malvern

Malvern Garage is a bus garage servicing vehicles in the Malvern Division.

* Year: 1983
* Facility: bus garage
* Status: active
* Buildings: Yes
* Location: Sheppard Avenue East west of Markham Road [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Markham+Road+and+Sheppard+Avenue,+Toronto,+ON&ie=UTF8&z=18&ll=43.793882,-79.243671&spn=0.001762,0.005407&t=h&om=1 Google Maps]
* [http://transit.toronto.on.ca/bus/8305.shtml Malvern Garage]

McCowan

McCowan Yard is a train yard operated by the Toronto Transit Commission in Toronto, Canada. It was opened in 1985 to service the Scarborough RT.

Most maintenance on RT vehicles are made at this yard, but some work is done at Hillcrest Complex and Greenwood Subway Yard.

* Year: 1985
* Facility: RT carhouse
* Status: active
* Buildings: Yes
* Location: north of McCowan Road and Ellesmere Avenue

* [http://transit.toronto.on.ca/subway/5306.shtml The TTC's McCowan Yards] (Transit Toronto)

Queensway

Queensway Garage is a bus garage servicing vehicles in the Queensway Division.

* Year: 1966
* Facility: bus garage
* Status: active
* Buildings: Yes
* Location: Evans Ave west of Kipling Ave [http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=43.615992,-79.52827&spn=0.001833,0.005407&t=k&z=18&om=1 Google Maps]
* [http://transit.toronto.on.ca/bus/8301.shtml Queensway Garage]

Roncesvalles

Roncesvalles Carhouse is a streetcar division.

* Year: 1921 (as a TTC facility), originally opened 1895
* Facility: Streetcar carhouse
* Status: active
* Buildings: Yes
* Location: Queen Street West and Roncesvalles Avenue

Russell

Russell Carhouse is a streetcar division. It is located on Queen Street East near the intersection with Greenwood.

* Year: 1921 (as a TTC facility)
* Facility: Streetcar carhouse
* Status: active
* Buildings: Yes

Wilson Complex

Wilson Complex opened in stages in the mid-1970s.

* Year: 1976-1978
* Division: Wilson
* Facility: bus garage, subway carhouse, subway station
* Status: active
* Buildings: Yes
* Location: [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&ie=UTF8&z=18&ll=43.739368,-79.455357&spn=0.001763,0.005407&t=h&om=1 Google maps]
* [http://transit.toronto.on.ca/bus/8302.shtml Transit Toronto - Wilson Complex]

Defunct Major TTC Facilities:

* Danforth Carhouse/Garage: Active as TTC Carhouse 1921-1966; Inactive 1966-67, used only to store surplus streetcars; Garage from 1967-2002; Subway division 1966-date; RT division 1985-date; Subway and RT division ONLY 2002-date
* Davenport Garage: Active 1930-1992
* Eglinton Carhouse/Garage: Active as TTC Carhouse 1921-1954; Garage from 1954-2002
* Lansdowne Carhouse/Garage: Active as TTC Carhouse 1921-1966; Garage from 1947-1996, trolley coaches ONLY during 1947-1966, buses 1966-1996
* Parkdale Garage/Shops: Active as TTC Garage until 1966, Shops until 1980
* Sherbourne Garage: Active as TTC Garage 1930-1966; Gray Coach Lines Garage until 1980
* St. Clair Carhouse: Active as TTC Carhouse 1921-1978; used for new streetcar testing, minor repair and modification facility until 1992.
* Woodbine Garage: Active as TTC Garage 1954-1956