Museum station
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| Location | 75 Queen's Park Toronto, Ontario Canada |
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| Coordinates | 43°40′02″N 79°23′37″W / 43.66722°N 79.39361°WCoordinates: 43°40′02″N 79°23′37″W / 43.66722°N 79.39361°W | ||||||||||
| Platforms | centre platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | underground | ||||||||||
| Disabled access | No | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 28 February 1963 | ||||||||||
| Rebuilt | April 2008 | ||||||||||
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| Passengers (2015) | 8,100 | ||||||||||
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Museum is a subway station on the Yonge–University line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It opened in 1963 and is located under Queen's Park at Charles Street West, beside the Royal Ontario Museum after which it is named. Wi-Fi service is available at this station.
The station structure was created in the middle of the road using cut and cover, while immediately south of the station the line goes into a bored tunnel to run under Queen’s Park, passing east of the Ontario Legislative Building to reach Queen's Park station. The concourse is located under the roadway, one level above the north end of a centre platform, with entrances from either side of the road. There are two stairways on the west side adjacent to the southern end of the Royal Ontario Museum and two on the east, just south of Charles Street. Pedestrians are encouraged to use the station as a pedestrian underpass to cross Queen's Park, a wide and busy thoroughfare without a centre median. This station does not have an elevator and is not wheelchair accessible.
When plans for the adjacent and now closed McLaughlin Planetarium were drawn up in the mid-1960s, a tunnel that would lead directly to the Planetarium was contemplated, but this plan was scrapped as being too expensive.
The station is rated as high priority in the requirement for a second exit, and although plans were made to include additional exits at the south end of the platform at Queen's Park Crescent, nothing has yet been done.
Bay and St. George stations each have four parallel tracks, two above two. Between these stations and Museum is a full double-track, grade-separated wye junction. The tracks to/from Museum connect to the upper St. George and Lower Bay stations, while the tracks along Bloor use lower St. George and upper Bay.
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