Railway Stations Opened in 1954 - Bloor-Yonge, Tel Aviv Savidor Central Railway Station, Westall Railway Station, Melbourne, Queen (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 135. Not illustrated. Chapters: Bloor-Yonge, Tel Aviv Savidor Central Railway Station, Westall Railway Station, Melbourne, Queen, Tel Aviv Hahagana Railway Station, Union, Dundas, Wonderland, Eglinton, College, Marion Railway Station, Adelaide, Rosedale, New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal, Twickenham Railway Station, King, Kievskaya, Davisville, Summerhill, St. Clair, Revere Beach, Sagrera, Krasnopresnenskaya, Pervomayskaya, My gadani Station, Hiroto Station, Koshimizu Station, Yokoiso Station, Kasose Station, Beachmont, Nishi-Kawaguchi Station, Shukunohe Station, Tamagawa Station, Kadonohama Station, Satsuma-Matsumoto Station, Fabra I Puig, K do Station, Kasugaich Station, Shin- tsuka Station, Nishi-Tsubame Station, Hogdalen Metro Station, Bandhagen Metro Station. Excerpt: Bloor-Yonge (TTC) - The station opened in 1954. It was originally simply named "Bloor," and connected with a pair of enclosed platforms in the centre of Bloor Street to allow interchange with Bloor streetcars within the fare-paid zone. When the streetcars were replaced with the Bloor-Danforth subway in 1966, the station began to be shown on maps as "Bloor-Yonge," but actual platform signs still show "Bloor" on the Yonge-University-Spadina line and "Yonge" on the Bloor-Danforth Line, following the style common in the New York subway. (Some maps over the years also showed the station with two names "Bloor" and "Yonge," although the style "Bloor-Yonge" is now in use again; both are retronyms of Bloor station.) Similarly, the automated station announcement system installed in 200708 refers to the station as "Bloor" on the one line and "Yonge" on the other. It is the only TTC station named in this way; all other interchanges share the same name for both lines, including Sheppard-Yonge. The station originally featured a small retail concourse along the corridor ...