Toronto subway rolling stock
Rolling Stock Numbers Quantity Year Built Builder ( & Model ) Class Date Retired Notes
5000-5099 100 1953-1954 GRC & W G1 October 6 , 1990 5080-5081 experimentally retrofitted with fluorescent lighting . 5068-5069 converted to service cars RT-36 & RT-37 ( grinding train power units ) in February 1991 ; 5066-5067 & 5074-5075 had been held for future conversion to service cars ; 5098-5099 preserved by the Ontario Electric Railway Historical Association
5100-5105 6 1954-1955 GRC & W G2 October 6 , 1990 experimental aluminum train
5200-5227 28 1956 GRC & W G-3 October 6 , 1990 non-driving motor cars permanently coupled with mating G-1 cars ( 50xx-52yy-52xx-50yy )
5110-5115 6 1958-1959 GRC & W G-4 October 6 , 1990 experimental cars built as an integral train ( 5110-5111-5112-5113-5114-5115 ) ; electro-dynamic braking equipment and motors removed April 1966 through March 1967 ( for installation in service cars ) , and remarshalled as : 5110-5115 , 5030-5111-5114-5031
5300-5335 36 1962-1963 MLW M-1 May 1 , 1999 5300-5301 preserved by the OERHA
5336-5499 164 1965-1966 HSC RTC-75 H-1 November 29 , 1999 5374-5375 rebuilt to service cars RT-9 & RT-10 ; 5388-5391 scrapped due to Christie station fire in October 1976 ; 5391 rebuilt to service car RT-23 in March 1984
5500-5575 76 1971 HSC RTC-75 H-2 September 28 , 2001 5500-5505 equipped with experimental Hitachi chopper controls and regenerative braking and reclassed as H-3 in 1973 ; converted back to H-2 between September 1984 and April 1985
5576-5663 88 1974-1975 HSC RTC-75 H-4 January 27 , 2012 Last subway cars outfitted with vinyl orange upholstered seats , also the last of which not outfitted with air-conditioning systems . They also had similar interior design based from the H-2 subway cars , with reduced seating in a 2+2 configuration instead of 2+3 to allow for more standees . Some H-4 subway cars were retired from revenue service between 2000-2002 by the delivery of T-1 class cars . By January 27 , 2012 , all H-4 cars were retired from revenue service
5670-5807 138 1976-1979 HSC RTC-75 H-5 June 14 , 2013 5755 retired in June 1984 and scrapped November 1985 due to accident in December 1981 ; 5754 modified in November 1985 for use as A or B unit to substitute for cars out of service for maintenance ( can also operate as a single unit for testing ) ; 5796 modified by UTDC in July-December 1990 to become T-1 prototype , which was retired and scrapped in September 2012 ; first subway cars outfitted with air-conditioning systems , all H-5 trains were retired from service by June 14 , 2013 , some of which were taken to Buffalo , New York for refurbishment , before being sold to the Lagos Rail Mass Transit , but scrapped by August 2015
5810-5935 126 1986-1989 UTDC RTC-75 H-6 June 20 , 2014 Accessible seating areas were added near the operator 's cab and the first set of doors in each car during technological upgrades ( like the T-1s ) between 2005 and 2008 . All H-6 trains were retired from service by June 20 , 2014
5000-5371 372 1995-2001 BT RTC-75 T-1 Active First cars with AC propulsion , cars 5344-5345 converted to Toronto Rocket T35A08 mock-up cars in June-July 2006 . Now the TTC is working on putting external door chimes and side destination signs on all of their T1 units
5381-6196 480 2009-2015 BT T35A08 Toronto Rocket Active 76 six-car permanently coupled trains with open gangways being delivered . First train delivered on October 1 , 2010 . Sets are numbered 5xx1-5xx2-5xx3-5xx4-5xx5-5xx6 . In February 2013 , set 5461-5466 was retrofitted with additional plastic yellow handholds , and external door chimes , displacing the exterior blue lights on the car . Similarly , another set , 5851-5856 was also modified with the same features as with set 5461-5466 in May 2014 . Now the TTC is working on putting external door chimes and side destination signs on all of their TR units . First subway cars to adopt numbering in the 6000s . Set 5471-5476 was temporarily converted to a four-car train for testing purposes on Line 4 Sheppard , which were converted to full Toronto Rocket operation . After the testing phase , six additional four-car trains were received for use on Line 4 , which reduced the original 80 six-car trainset order to 76 six-car trainsets . Unlike the six-car trains , the four-car trains feature two pairs of A ( cab ) and B ( non-cab ) cars , numbered 6xx1-6xx2-6xx5-6xx6 . All six four-car TR Trains are in service on Line 4 and all seventy-six six-car TR Trains are in service on Line 1
Subway trains
The Toronto subway system's rolling stock consists of 880 subway cars for Line 1 Yonge-University, Line 2 Bloor-Danforth, and Line 4 Sheppard and 28 intermediate-capacity rapid transit cars for Line 3 Scarborough. The rolling stock is owned and maintained by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC).