Greenwood Yard is a rail yard

Rail yard

A rail yard, or railroad yard, is a complex series of railroad tracks for storing, sorting, or loading/unloading, railroad cars and/or locomotives. Railroad yards have many tracks in parallel for keeping rolling stock stored off the mainline, so that they do not obstruct the flow of traffic....

 and support buildings that service subway vehicles on the Bloor–Danforth line of the Toronto subway

Toronto subway and RT

The Toronto subway and RT is a rapid transit system in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, consisting of both underground and elevated railway lines, operated by the Toronto Transit Commission . It was Canada's first completed subway system, with the first line being built under Yonge Street, which opened in...

 system. It is located at 400 Greenwood Avenue, on the west side of Greenwood south of Danforth Avenue

Danforth Avenue

Danforth Avenue is an east-west arterial road in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its western end begins in Old Toronto from the Prince Edward Viaduct as a continuation of Bloor Street and continues through East York until intersecting with Kingston Road in Scarborough...

. The yard was built in the mid 1960s as the Bloor-Danforth line was being expanded to relieve the Davisville Subway Yard

Davisville Subway Yard

The Davisville Subway Yard is a rail yard on the Toronto Transit Commission's Yonge subway line.The yard is located adjoining the Davisville Station, between Eglinton and St. Clair Stations. When the subway line first opened in 1954, this was the only yard on the subway system, as there was only...

. The site was previously Harper's Dump, the city of Toronto's main landfill in the 1930s.

Greenwood Yard is connected to the Bloor-Danforth line by spur tracks on different levels between Donlands

Donlands (TTC)

Donlands is a station on the Bloor–Danforth line of the subway system in Toronto, Canada. It is located at 990 Danforth Avenue at Donlands Avenue.-History:...

 and Greenwood

Greenwood (TTC)

Greenwood is a station on the Bloor–Danforth line of the Toronto subway system. It is located on the corner of Linnsmore Crescent and Strathmore Boulevard near 1177 Danforth Avenue, one block east of Greenwood Avenue...

 stations; spurs to and from the west-bound tracks pass over top of the east-bound tracks. The arrangement allows for trains to be added into or taken out of service with a minimum of disruption to ongoing operations. There is also a heavy rail freight spur on the south side of the yards connected to the GO Transit

GO Transit

GO Transit is an inter-regional public transit system in Southern Ontario, Canada. It primarily serves the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area conurbation, with operations extending to several communities beyond the GTHA proper in the Greater Golden Horseshoe...

 Lakeshore East / Canadian National Railway

Canadian National Railway

The Canadian National Railway Company is a Canadian Class I railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec. CN's slogan is "North America's Railroad"....

 mainline.

Greenwood is the only major yard on the Bloor-Danforth line, since Vincent Subway Yard has been closed. Besides servicing subway cars, Greenwood also services Scarborough RT cars when the work is more complex than what can be handled at the McCowan Yards on the RT line.

Rolling stock

Greenwood Yard is home to approximately half the Commission's fleet of trains and work cars. The yard regularly houses:

• Approximately ¹/₃ the fleet of T1 subway cars
  T-series (Toronto Subway car)
  The T-series rapid transit cars are a Toronto subway car model, ordered in 1992 and built in 1995-2001. The cars were built by Bombardier Transportation's Thunder Bay Works for the Toronto Transit Commission...
  
  
• 126 H6 subway cars
  H-series (Toronto Subway car)
  The H-series rapid transit cars are a subway car model built from 1965 to 1990 for the Toronto Transit Commission in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. From 1965 to 1975, the cars were built by Hawker Siddeley Canada and later by its new owner the Urban Transportation Development Corporation...
  
  
• 44 H4 subway cars
  H-series (Toronto Subway car)
  The H-series rapid transit cars are a subway car model built from 1965 to 1990 for the Toronto Transit Commission in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. From 1965 to 1975, the cars were built by Hawker Siddeley Canada and later by its new owner the Urban Transportation Development Corporation...
  
  

Facilities

• marshalling yard
  Classification yard
  A classification yard or marshalling yard is a railroad yard found at some freight train stations, used to separate railroad cars on to one of several tracks. First the cars are taken to a track, sometimes called a lead or a drill...
  
  
• outdoor storage facility
• specialized Shops for heavy overhauls of subway cars and components as well as Stores. The Shops are operationally separate from the Carhouse servicing the Bloor-Danforth subway fleet

See also

• Davisville Subway Yard
  Davisville Subway Yard
  The Davisville Subway Yard is a rail yard on the Toronto Transit Commission's Yonge subway line.The yard is located adjoining the Davisville Station, between Eglinton and St. Clair Stations. When the subway line first opened in 1954, this was the only yard on the subway system, as there was only...
  
   - services the Yonge and Sheppard lines
• Wilson Subway Yard
  Wilson Subway Yard
  The Wilson Bus Garage and Subway Yard is the largest of the Toronto Transit Commission's three subway yards and bus garage. The subway yard services subway cars on the Yonge–University–Spadina line. The facility is located on Transit Rd. north of Wilson Ave.The yard was completed in 1976 and...
  
   - services the Spadina and University lines
• McCowan RT Yard - services the Scarborough RT
• Vincent Subway Yard - inactive