Caption: While passengers walk to the exit near the Eatons Centre, others get aboard a new Toronto Rocket subway train at busy Queen Station in the downtown core, along the Yonge-University-Spadina (YUS) line.
The 6-car Toronto Rocket trains were purchased in part to expand the capacity of the overcrowded Yonge Line, featuring about 10% extra capacity per trainset. They were deployed and are exclusively used on the YUS, while other subway trains move to the Bloor-Danforth line to retire the older Hawker cars, including the H4, H5, and H6 models.
Small sections of the original 1950's Vitrolite glass tiling remain in very few places on the system, like here on the left, along the north end stairwell walls at Queen Station. Virtually every other original Yonge line has had their tiles replaced over time with ceramic or other materials, with the exception of Eglinton.
The station codes like this one on the Vitrolite denote stairways, escalators and other access points at each station. Queen is the 9th Station on the Yonge-University line (starting from St. George and counting around the loop) and this is Staircase 24 (or something along those lines).
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