Summerhill Station

Summerhill is a station on the Yonge line of the subway system in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is at 1189 Yonge Street at Shaftesbury Avenue, near Summerhill Avenue. It was opened in 1954 as part of the original Yonge line.

The tunnel originally ended at Summerhill Avenue, immediately beyond Summerhill station; the line continued in open cut as far as Pleasant Boulevard, just before the next station. Various sections of this open cut were roofed over as the years passed, and since the early 1980s it has been entirely under cover, except when one block was opened out and re-covered, to allow new construction above it. Passengers who look out into the tunnel on this section can still see the sloping sides of the original cut, the stumps of lamp posts, and the undersides of four road bridges.

Just south of Summerhill TTC station is the Canadian Pacific Railway’s former Summerhill-North Toronto station, now used as a liquor store. GO Transit’s Midtown line, proposed as recently as 2000 but not a current priority, would see that station reopened and served by commuter trains bypassing Toronto’s downtown Union Station, and turn Summerhill into a major interchange between local public transport and mainline railways. It is currently one of the least-used stations due to the lack of connections (it primarily serves local traffic in the area).