McCowan Yard is an inactive rail yard on the Toronto Transit Commission 's (TTC's) Line 3 Scarborough of the Toronto subway system. Line 3 permanently closed following a derailment on July 24, 2023.
6-426: McCowan Yard is situated on a 4.5-acre (1.8 ha) site located east of McCowan Station , the eastern terminal of the former Line 3. The yard's street entrance is at 1720 Ellesmere Road, Scarborough, Toronto. The yard provided facilities for the storage, cleaning, and maintenance of the 28 Intermediate Capacity Transit System (ICTS) vehicles used on Line 3 Scarborough. The yard employed a staff of 40. The yard had
12-520: A carhouse made of prefabricated metal designed by the TTC's Engineering and Construction Department. The carhouse contained one wash track and two repair/maintenance tracks. Outside, there were four storage tracks for passenger vehicles and a turning loop of 70 ft (21 m) radius was used to store work vehicles. The yard also had a power substation. McCowan Carhouse was limited to light repairs and maintenance. Major maintenance work had to be performed at
18-517: A derailment on July 24, 2023, after which the TTC decided not to reopen Line 3 service. The station structure was built on three levels: Line 3 was on the upper floor, an automatic entrance from the Consilium Place office complex via the Pedway pedestrian walkway was on the second floor, and the station entrance from McCowan Road with the collector and the concourse was on the lower floor. At
24-685: The Greenwood Yard shop. Because of gauge and technology differences, ICTS cars had to be transported by truck between the McCowan and Greenwood yards. McCowan Yard was to have been a temporary facility pending an expansion of the line to Malvern . However, the City of Toronto has decided to replace Line 3 with an extension of Line 2 Bloor–Danforth estimated to open in 2030. Thus, with the closure of Line 3, McCowan Yard has been shut down and will be decommissioned. McCowan (TTC) McCowan
30-409: The time of its closure, 15 TTC bus routes (13 daytime routes and 2 Blue Night routes) plus one Durham Region Transit bus route passed by McCowan station. McCowan station was the terminus station of Line 3 and lay just west of McCowan Yard (completed in 1983), which stored and maintained Line 3's trains. Trains used a double crossover before the station entrance, but only one side of the station
36-717: Was a terminal station on Line 3 Scarborough of the Toronto subway . The closed station is located at 1275 McCowan Road , just north of Ellesmere Road at Bushby Drive/Town Centre Court. In February 2021, the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) recommended the closure of Line 3 in November 2023 and its replacement by bus service until the completion of the Scarborough extension of Line 2 Bloor–Danforth . However, this station permanently closed following
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