Platforms Centre platform Disabled access Yes Opened 30 March 1954 Platform Island platform | Structure type Underground Passengers (2014) 77,530 Province Ontario Tracks 2 | |
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Location 2190 Yonge Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada Connections TTC buses
5 Avenue Rd
32 Eglinton West
34 Eglinton East
51 Leslie
54 Lawrence East
56 Leaside
61 Avenue Rd North
97 Yonge
320 Yonge
332 Eglinton West
334 Eglinton East
354 Lawrence East Address Toronto, ON M4S 2B8, Canada Similar Davisville, Eglinton West, Spadina, Lawrence, York Mills | ||
Eglinton is a subway station on the Yonge–University line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located at the southwest corner of Yonge Street and Eglinton Avenue. It is one of the larger stations of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), with several shops located on the concourse level. It is the busiest station that is not a line terminus or a major transfer point with another line or transit system.
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The station is on three levels, all six entrances are scattered throughout the street level in the surrounding area of Yonge Street and Eglinton Avenue, the concourse and collector is on the second level, and the subway platform is on the lower level. Wi-Fi service is available at this station.
Overview
The tracks approach the station from the south in open cut before going underground at the Berwick Portal, immediately before the station. Here the tracks divide sharply to go either side of the island platform. North of the station the line swings to the east, to run directly under Yonge Street in a bored tunnel.
This station is used as a switchover point for subways operators who are coming off or coming on their shift. There are sometimes slight delays at this station as subway operators are being changed.
Nearby destinations include Eglinton Park, TVOntario studios, head offices of the Canadian Tire Corporation, the Yonge-Eglinton Centre, Minto Midtown, and the Canada Square Complex which is built directly over the station.
Tourists staying in downtown Toronto wishing to travel to the Ontario Science Centre usually take the subway to this station and take the 34 Eglinton East bus to Don Mills Road to reach the destination.
Entrances
There are seven entrances to the station in the surrounding area:
History
Eglinton Station opened in 1954 as the northern terminus of the original Yonge subway line. All of the stations on this section of the line used similar vitreous marble wall tiles, with variations in colour schemes. Eglinton is the only one to retain its original tiles, which had not deteriorated, unlike the other stations.
In 2004, this station became accessible with elevators.
Metrolinx is building the new Eglinton Crosstown line, running along Eglinton Avenue from Mount Dennis to Kennedy Station, passing through Eglinton Station and Eglinton West Station on the way.
As part of the work to connect the Crosstown platform, it has been proposed that the current Yonge-line platform be shifted approximately 70m northward of its current location; this will allow smoother flows of passenger traffic between the platforms, and avoid a situation where all transferring passengers are bottlenecked by only one transfer path, similar to the busy Bloor-Yonge station.
On November 17, 2016, Eglinton station is the last station on Line 1 to be Presto enabled, which means all of the stations along Line 1 are Presto enabled.