Sherbourne (TTC)

Sherbourne
Location	633 Sherbourne Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Coordinates	43°40′20″N 79°22′35″W / 43.67222°N 79.37639°WCoordinates: 43°40′20″N 79°22′35″W / 43.67222°N 79.37639°W
Platforms	side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	TTC buses  75  Sherbourne  300   Bloor - Danforth
Construction
Structure type	underground
Disabled access	No
History
Opened	25 February 1966
Traffic
Passengers (2014[1])	25,860
Services
Preceding station   TTC   Following station Yonge toward Kipling Bloor–Danforth Castle Frank toward Kennedy

Sherbourne is a subway station on the Bloor–Danforth line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The station, which opened in 1966, is located west of Sherbourne Street on the south side of Bloor Street East. The station primarily serves the St. James Town neighbourhood and the southern portion of Rosedale. This is not an accessible subway station.

Photo ID Centre

Sherbourne Station houses the TTC Photo ID Centre.^[2] The station used to be very crowded as students lined up to get photo ID cards or at the end of each month to purchase the next month's pass. The TTC photographic team now visits most participating colleges and universities at the beginning of each academic year,^[3] and the Post-Secondary Student Metropass is now available from collectors in subway stations or at some pass vending machines.^[4]

Entrances

The primary entrance is located on the Sherbourne Street side of the office building at 425 Bloor Street East.

An unmanned second entrance^[5] to the east end of the platforms is on Glen Road, a small side street which runs north off Howard Street from the densely populated St. James Town. A pedestrian tunnel under Bloor Street and a footbridge across Rosedale Valley Road provide access to this entrance from Rosedale to the north.

Subway infrastructure in the vicinity

Bored tunnel towards Yonge Station

Covered bridge over Rosedale Valley Road

This is the only station south of Bloor Street on the original line, with the only other one at Kipling not being built until 1980, as the new westerly terminus. Sherbourne is also uniquely deep underground, requiring a 2,250 feet (690 m) long section of track to be bored west to Yonge station,^[5] rather than the shallow cut and cover method used to construct most of the line.

East of the station, the line crosses back under Bloor Street to the north side. It emerges from the tunnel to cross the Rosedale Ravine on a curving covered concrete bridge,^[5] and then returns underground just before Castle Frank station. The adjacent bridge that carries Bloor Street across the ravine, although built with provision for a lower deck as part of the Prince Edward Viaduct project,^[5] is at such an angle to the subway alignment that it could not be conveniently used. A conventional bridge was planned for the subway line, with a view of the ravine, but local objections forced the Toronto Transit Commission to enclose it in a concrete shell for noise abatement.^[6]

Surface connections

A paper transfer is required to connect to the following surface routes:

Northbound

• 75 Sherbourne to South Drive

75A to South Drive via Summerhill

Southbound

• 75 Sherbourne to Queen's Quay

References

1. "Subway ridership, 2014" (PDF). Toronto Transit Commission. Retrieved September 12, 2015. This table shows the typical number of customer-trips made on each subway on an average weekday and the typical number of customers travelling to and from each station platform on an average weekday.
2. "Sherbourne Station Photo ID Centre". TTC.
3. Robert Mackenzie (22 August 2011). "TTC post-secondary Metropasses available for college and university students". Transit Toronto.
4. Post-Secondary Student Monthly Metropass
5. James Bow. "A History of Subways on Bloor and Queen Streets". Transit Toronto. Retrieved May 2012. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
6. http://www.lostrivers.ca/points/PEViadct.htm

External links

Media related to Sherbourne Station at Wikimedia Commons

• Sherbourne Station at the Toronto Transit Commission