Richard White
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What the hell is going at St George today?
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This section of Line 1 has been out since 6am this morning; clearly a serious problem and yet another red flag about TTC maintenance.
Line 1 Yonge-University: No service between St Andrew and Spadina while we fix a track problem. Shuttle buses are running between St Andrew and Spadina.
Line 1 Yonge-University: No service between St Andrew and Spadina while we fix a track problem. Shuttle buses are running between St Andrew and Spadina.
Richard White
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I get the that.. I am more curious what the track problem is.
If they have Line 1 shut down at St George I wonder if there is an issue with the crossover, possibly a derailment of some sort.
Northern Light
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First off.........
You did not say you 'got that'...........you said 'What the hell is going on" Implying that you did not know. That's why I took the time to reply.
The section of track being repaired is at Museum.
Richard White
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My apologies NL. When I said I got that, I meant I saw what you posted but it was not quite what I was looking for. I was on the subway this morning and saw the hordes of people at Spadina.
As usual, you are correct and I am sorry for being so terse.
Richard White
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As @Northern Light said it is at Museum.
I wonder if something happened at the Wye Junction this morning. They are doing work on Line 1 overnight this week meaning that some work cars may be going through the Wye to Greenwood Yard.
Just a guess.. but as I said I wonder if a work car derailed or something happened to the switches. Moreover, I wonder if something happened inside the Wye.
APTA-2048
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It’s not a derailment. It’s a problem just with the track.
Richard White
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Apparently it was a cracked switch as seen here:
Bordercollie
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This requires the line to be shut down for the whole day? Something tells me that there is more to this story.
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If the TTC website is to be believed (the closure notice is gone), it's back to normal on that section of Line 1.
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There isn't any more to the story.
A broken rail is not a regular occurrence, but it certainly isn't uncommon, either. But to make matters worse, those switches at Museum are non-standard meaning that there is a very good chance that there is less of a parts stockpile for them than there are for the other switches in the system.
I suspect that a substantial part of the delay was having to mill a new section of rail down to fit that spot.
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Chill buddy! At the end of the day we all want to find out why things went wrong!
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No, This is the only alert at the moment about Subway Service
"This Monday through Friday, subway service on Line 1 between Osgoode and College stations will end nightly at 11 p.m. for track work. Shuttle buses will operate. Regular subway service will resume the following morning at 6 a.m."
See also:
Subway service resumes between Spadina and St. Andrew stations on Line 1 after closure for broken switch
Full subway service has resumed between Spadina and St. Andrew stations on Line 1 following major problems this morning morning due to a track issue, the TTC says.
www.cp24.com