Sheppard-Yonge

Sheppard-Yonge TTC Subway Station
Station statistics
Address	4800 Yonge Street
Coordinates	43°45′41″N 79°24′39″W / 43.76139°N 79.41083°W / 43.76139; -79.41083Coordinates: 43°45′41″N 79°24′39″W / 43.76139°N 79.41083°W / 43.76139; -79.41083
Lines	Yonge–University–Spadina      Sheppard
Connections	TTC buses
Structure	underground
Levels	2
Platforms	centre (Y-U-S line) side (Sheppard line)
Other information
Opened	29 March 1974
Rebuilt	24 November 2002
Accessible
Formerly	Sheppard
Traffic
Passengers (2007-08)	72,200 (Y-U-S line) 42,750 (Sheppard line) 114,950 Total
Services
Preceding station   TTC   Following station York Mills toward Downsview Yonge–University–Spadina North York Centre toward Finch Terminus Sheppard Bayview toward Don Mills

Sheppard-Yonge is a station on the Yonge-University-Spadina and Sheppard lines of the subway system in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the fourth busiest subway station in the system, after Bloor-Yonge, St. George, and Kennedy, serving a combined total of approximately 114,950 people a day.

It is located on Sheppard Avenue East/West at 4800 Yonge Street.

Entrances

• north and south sides of Sheppard, just west of Yonge
• Harlandale Avenue, one block north of Sheppard, west of Yonge (the closest entrance to the bus terminal)
• elevator entrance at the northeast corner of the intersection of Sheppard and Yonge
• via the Procter & Gamble building, located on the east side of Yonge, just south of Sheppard
• via the Sheppard Centre
• via the Nestle Building at Sheppard and Beecroft

History

Sheppard station opened in 1974, in what was then known as the Borough of North York.

The subway extension from Eglinton to Finch was planned to open in two stages with Sheppard as the temporary terminus, but construction north of York Mills was delayed by various problems and in 1973, York Mills was opened as the temporary terminus instead; Sheppard station then opened together with Finch in 1974. The H-2 class subway cars delivered in 1971 included destination signs for "Sheppard via downtown" on the expectation that it would be a terminal station.

The station was expanded and renamed "Sheppard-Yonge" in 2002 with the opening of the Sheppard subway line, for which this station became the western terminus. The renaming was similar to that of Bloor-Yonge station. Unlike Bloor-Yonge, where the signs on the Yonge line platforms still read "Bloor" and those on the Bloor line read "Yonge", Sheppard-Yonge is given its full name on both sets of platforms; all existing signs within the station were changed to give the new name.

Destination signs on Sheppard Line trains have shown the station both as "Sheppard-Yonge" and as "Yonge Street". When the Voice Automation System was added on the Y-U-S Line, the stop announcements referred to the station as Sheppard.

Shepard Yonge station is home to many of the Cardinal Carter Academy for the arts students,

Architecture and art

The station on the Sheppard line was designed by architectural firm NORR Limited. The construction of the Sheppard line included the integration of the bus terminal at street level into the fare-paid zone.

The artwork in the station, entitled Immersion Land and created by the artist Stacey Spiegel, consists of panoramic posterized murals created from 150 digital photos rendered onto single-colour mosaic tiles. The artwork depicts rural scenery along Yonge Street somewhere between Lake Ontario and North Bay, and is located on the upper (Sheppard line) platform level.

Subway infrastructure in the vicinity

A connecting track from the southbound Yonge-University-Spadina Line, used only if cars or work equipment need to be transferred between the two lines, curves around to a point 500 metres west of Yonge, where the Sheppard line tunnel actually begins. This provides an area where trains can be stored clear of the line.

In the station, the Sheppard Line tracks cross above the Yonge line. The Sheppard Line station has platforms on the outer sides of the tracks, but there is also a roughed-in center platform. Should the station become a busy transport hub, this platform will be opened and trains will open all their doors, allowing riders to enter on one side and exit on the other to improve efficiency.

Trains normally pull into the southern platform to load and discharge passengers, before returning in the direction from which they came; the northern platform is used only by trains which are going out of service and so must discharge their passengers without allowing more aboard.

Just east of the station, the Sheppard Line converges with a second junction track from the northbound Yonge-University-Spadina Line.

Tenants

• Cinnabon - located below the bus platform and on the platform level on the Sheppard Line
• Gateway Newstands

Surface connections

• 84 Sheppard West
• 85 Sheppard East
• 97 Yonge
• 98 Willowdale Senlac
• 196(B) York University Rocket

Gallery

Escalators from eastbound platform down to north-south platform; Spiegel's Immersion Land can be seen at the back

The roughed-in centre platform

External links

• Official TTC page for Sheppard-Yonge Station

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