The Wilson Bus Garage and Subway Yard (also known as the Wilson Complex) is the largest of the Toronto Transit Commission

Toronto Transit Commission

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's three subway 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....

s and bus garage

Bus garage

A bus garage or bus depot is a building where buses are stored and maintained. In many conurbations, bus garages are on the site of former car barns or tram sheds, where Streetcars or Trams were stored, and the operation transferred to buses...

. The subway yard services subway cars on the Yonge–University–Spadina line. The facility is located on Transit Rd. north of Wilson Ave.

The 60 acres (242,811.6 m²) yard was completed in 1976 and began operations in 1977. The facility also houses a bus barn and maintenance facilities for subway cars.

Construction of a new training building and simulator and modifications to the car house and yard are currently being made to accommodate the new Toronto Rocket trains that are on order.

Subway division 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...
  
  
• indoor storage facility
• outdoor storage facility

Rolling stock

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

• Approximately half 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...
  
  
• 136 H5 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...
  
  

Upon delivery of the new Toronto Rocket subway cars Wilson Yard will shift its T1 cars to Greenwood

Greenwood Subway Yard

Greenwood Yard is a rail yard and support buildings that service subway vehicles on the Bloor–Danforth line of the Toronto subway system. It is located at 400 Greenwood Avenue, on the west side of Greenwood south of Danforth Avenue...

as the older H-Series cars are retired.

Bus division facilities

• The 230000 square feet (21,367.7 m²) garage
• 2 wash racks, 2 fuelling stations for diesel, 1 fuelling station for CNG
• a Eurovac system
• 11 40-foot hoists, 3 60-foot hoists
• 4 inspection pit stations