TTC yards, garages, and facilities

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

  • Year: 1988
  • Facility: Bus garage
  • Status: ACTIVE
  • Buildings: Yes

Birchmount

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

  • Year: 1956
  • Facility: Bus garage
  • Status: Active

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:

  • TTC Administrative Buildings
  • Bus platforms for Davisville Station
  • Year: 1954
  • Facility: Subway yard
  • Status: Active
  • Buildings: Yes

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

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

Hillcrest Complex

  • Facility: streetcar and bus garage; maintenance shops; administration offices
  • Status: active
  • Buildings: Yes

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.

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: Google Maps

Malvern

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

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.

Queensway

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

Roncesvalles

Roncesvalles Carhouse is a streetcar division.

  • Year: 1921 (as a TTC facility), originally opened 1895
  • Facility: Streetcar carhouse
  • Status: active
  • Buildings: Yes

Russell

Russell Carhouse is a streetcar division.

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

Wilson Complex

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

Defunct Major TTC Facilities:

  • Danforth Carhouse/Garage: Active as TTC Carhouse 1921-1966; Garage from 1966-2002; 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 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