Subway Trains
| Fleet Numbers | Quantity | Year Built | Builder (& Model) | Class | Year Retired | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5000-5099 | 100 | 1953–1954 | GRC&W | G-1 | 1990 | 5068-5069 converted to service cars RT-36 & RT-37 (grinding train power units) in February 1991; 5066-5067 & 5074-5075 had been held for future conversion to service cars; 5098-5099 preserved by the Ontario Electric Railway Historical Association. |
| 5100-5105 | 6 | 1954–1955 | GRC&W | G-2 | 1990 | experimental aluminum train. |
| 5110-5115 | 6 | 1958–1959 | GRC&W | G-4 | 1990 | experimental cars built as an integral train (5110-5111-5112-5113-5114-5115); electro-dynamic braking equipment and motors removed April 1966 through March 1967 (for installation in service cars), and remarshalled as: 5110-5115, 5030-5111-5114-5031. |
| 5200-5227 | 28 | 1956 | GRC&W | G-3 | 1990 | non-driving motor cars permanently coupled with mating G-1 cars (50xx-52yy-52xx-50yy) |
| 5300-5335 | 36 | 1962–1963 | MLW | M-1 | 1999 | 5300-5301 preserved by the OERHA |
| 5336-5499 | 164 | 1965–1966 | HSC RTC-75 | H-1 | 1999 | 5374-5375 rebuilt to service cars RT-9 & RT-10; 5388-5391 scrapped due to Christie station fire in October 1976; 5391 rebuilt to service car RT-23 in March 1984. |
| 5500-5575 | 76 | 1971 | HSC RTC-75 | H-2 | 2002 | 5500-5505 equipped with experimental Hitachi chopper controls and regenerative braking and reclassed as H-3 in 1973; converted back to H-2 between September 1984 and April 1985. |
| 5576-5663 | 88 | 1974–1975 | HSC RTC-75 | H-4 | 2012 | Some H-4 subway cars were retired from revenue service between 2000-2002 by the delivery of T-1 class cars. As of January 27, 2012, all H-4 cars have been retired from revenue service. |
| 5670-5803 | 134 | 1976–1977 | HSC RTC-75 | H-5 | expected 2013 | 5755 retired in June 1984 and scrapped November 1985 due to accident in December 1981; 5754 modified in November 1985 for use as A or B unit to substitute for cars out of service for maintenance (can also operate as a single unit for testing); 5796 modified by UTDC in July–December 1990 to become T-1 prototype; remaining cars being retired as the new Toronto Rocket trains are introduced;A with some cars being sold to Eko Rail of Lagos, Nigeria and the rest being sold to the scrap heap.B |
| 5804-5807 | 4 | 1980 | ||||
| 5810-5935 | 126 | 1986–1989 | UTDC RTC-75 | H-6 | expected 2013–2014 | To be retired after the remaining H-5 cars are retired and as the new Toronto Rocket trains are introduced;A will be sold to Eko Rail of Lagos, Nigeria.B |
| 5000-5215 | 216 | 1995–1999 | BT RTC-75 | T-1 | AC propulsion; wheelchair accessible; 5344-5345 converted to T35A08 (Toronto Rocket) mock-up cars in June 2006. | |
| 5216-5371 | 156 | 1999–2002 | ordered June 1998 to replace M-1 & H-2 cars; wheelchair accessible | |||
| 5381-6076 | 420 | 2010–2014 | BT T35A08 | Toronto Rocket | wheelchair accessible; permanently coupled into 70 six-car articulated trains. First train delivered on October 1, 2010. Sets are numbered 5xx1-5xx2-5xx3-5xx4-5xx5-5xx6. Set 5461-5466 was modified in February 2013 with additional plastic yellow handholds and has also been retrofitted with external door chimes, displacing the exterior blue lights on that car. | |
| Builders | |
|---|---|
| BT | Bombardier Transportation |
| GRC&W | Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Co. |
| HSC | Hawker-Siddeley Canada |
| MLW | Montreal Locomotive Works |
| UTDC | Urban Transportation Development Corp. |
A New Toronto Rocket trains are gradually replacing the old H-5 subway trains on the Yonge-University-Spadina line. After all the H-5s are retired, the T-1s operating on the Yonge line will move to the Bloor line, which in turn will allow for the displacement and retirement of the H-6 subway cars.
B In May 2009, the TTC found an undisclosed potential buyer for the H5 and H6 cars. In September 2011, the buyer was identified as Eko Rail of Lagos, Nigeria.
Newer cars are specifically designed to be wheelchair-accessible, although level boarding platforms allow a degree of access to all trains.
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“In New York—whose subway trains in particular have been ‘tattooed’ with a brio and an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame—not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.... Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the ‘haves.’”
—Gilbert Adair, British author, critic. ‘Cleaning and Cleansing,’ Myths and Memories (1986)