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Finished flowers for Ron, now Street Scene for Noel - what are friends for? Well maybe not quite the street but a train station! The Union Station is a historic building in Toronto that has resisted demolition and repurposing. It was the train station where Canadian soldiers departing for the East kissed their families and loved ones goodbye during WWII. There have been renovations, extensions, expansions to it, but thank God no one has the audacity to build over it yet. The last of my friend and professor who left here to fight for King and Country died last year, age 101.
Cutting straight through to the heart of downtown Toronto one finds the business end of Union Station. 250,000 people a day travel through the station.
Union Station and the adjacent Rail Corridor is known as the Union Station Rail Corridor (USRC). The USRC is some 6.4 km long and consists of a complex network of approach tracks, passenger platforms and four Interlocking’s at Cherry Street, Scott Street, John Street and Bathurst Street. It has 14 station tracks with platform access, and more than 180 signals, 250 switch machines, 40 km of circuited track and all associated infrastructure.
Ongoing project is nearing completion to upgrade the facility and includes upgraded signals and track, a new roof and glass atrium over the passenger platforms, new staircases and access points as well as a completely new underground shopping concourse within the main building below the tracks.
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Union Station - There are actually two windows here and there are walkways between them but unfortunately they are not open to the public.
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See the photographer in the picture? (click on to enlarge)
Some buildings around Union Station
October 8, 2022
Union Station
Kansas City, MO