ARG1
Senior Member
The problem with the interlining concept was that the platform layout wasn't up to the task. Since the platforms are separated by line rather than by direction, what would happen is say you were at Bay Station and you wanted to head eastbound, you (alongside everyone else) would be waiting on the stairs and listening for which platform the train arrived, and ran to the train. This was obviously not sustainable long term. What could've made interlining work was if the platforms were built to instead be direction running, so westbound platform above the eastbound platform or vice versa.Yeah ... the plan was to try it 6 months in both ways and see how it worked. (well originally the plan was to run it the first way).
This is my favourite image - from the 2010 diversion for tunnel repairs between Yonge and St. George. While the trains ran through Lower Bay, they didn't stop, given that the platforms and escalators aren't up to it.
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We've heard for years that the originally envisioned service isn't possible given Line 1 extension to Spadina restricting the frequency. I wonder once they have ATC on Line 2, what the maximum frequency they could run.
I suppose if ATC had existed in 1966, then they might have been able to pull off the original configuration.
EDIT: Westbound above Westbound? Really? I need to proof read more...
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