Newsgroups: tor.general
Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!dgp.toronto.edu!pavel
From: pavel@dgp.toronto.edu (Pavel Rozalski)
Subject: Re: Phantom subway station?
Message-ID: <8811242051.AA20432@donnacona.dgp.toronto.edu>
Summary: It's there.
Keywords: Bay
Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI
References: <1636@maccs.McMaster.CA>
Distribution: tor
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 88 15:51:47 EST


There are a few interesting things about the Toronto Subway system.
The following information I have first hand. There is an entire subway
station built underneath Bay station. There are subway tracks which
lead from Museum station, to the underground Bay and up to Bloor line
and merge with the regular Bloor tracks shortly before Yonge Station:

                                       ^
                                       |
                                       N


                            |
-----     regular Bay       |
     \                      |Yonge
------*------*--------------*-------------------------
St.G  |   ---*-------/      |
      |  /  lower           |
      | /   Bay             |
      |/                    |
      * Museum              |
      |                     * Wellesley
      |                     |

There are escalator parts and big cables down there. The rails are
still used, I suspect primarily to get subways, rail grinders, etc.
from the Bloor line to the Yonge line and vice versa. The underground
station is lit up. If you go the regular Bay station, you may notice
that there are two colours of tiles, white and green. If you mentally
knock out the green tiles, you will see that there used to be stairs
and openings there, making Bay station virtually identical to St.
George.

I have heard rumours that there used to be tracks underneath Queen
Station that were perpendicular to the Yonge line. The tunnel has been
converted to an underground walkway between the North and Southbound
platforms.

Pavel Rozalski

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