Mount Dennis station

Mount Dennis was originally conceived as York Centre stationnamed after the City of York, a municipality within the former Metropolitan Toronto before it was amalgamated into the present Torontowhich was planned to be the western terminus of an earlier proposed Eglinton West subway line. This was one of the three proposed subway lines in the Network 2011 plan created in 1985 by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). Construction started in 1994 but was subsequently halted when the project was shelved in 1995 following the election of a Progressive Conservative government led by Mike Harris. That station was planned to be located at Black Creek Drive on the south side of Eglinton Avenue as opposed to the farther-west north side location of Mount Dennis and would also have featured a connection to a new station on the Kitchener GO train line. A draft prepared on April 10, 2013, established four designs for the station. In August of that year, the former Kodak building was temporarily moved to facilitate construction. On November 13, 2017, the building was moved back to sit on a newly built foundation. The community wanted this landmark preserved; thus, it became an integral part of the new station. By mid-2019, track had been laid from the Line 5 station eastwards beyond the junction with the Eglinton Maintenance and Storage Facility and escalators and wall tiles were being installed; graffiti had been removed from the Kodak building and restoration work to its interior was in progress. On October 23, 2025, the province announced that the GO and UP Express platforms of the station would be opening on November 16, 2025, no matter the status of Line 5. Line 5 service to the station began with its opening on February 8, 2026. ==Description==

(foreground) In addition to being a landmark and of heritage interest, the former Kodak building is a focal point for riders using the mobility hub, as many of the mobility hub's features are linked to this building. It has a waiting area and public washrooms, and retail spaces on the main and basement levels. As with other stations on Line 5, architectural features include natural light from large windows, including a window wall on the south side of the platform level, and skylights, steel structures painted white, and orange accents (the colour of the line). As part of a program to install artworks at major interchange stations along Line 5 Eglinton, Mount Dennis station features two artworks: • Up to This Moment, by Hadley + Maxwell, is a video display of an image documenting changes to the Kodak Heights site. The image displayed changes daily. The artwork is located on the east wall of the upper concourse; it is visible from Eglinton Avenue through the south-side glass wall of the station. • An untitled work by Sara Cwynar features a brightly coloured, wall-sized mural consisting of a collage of photographic images, digitally printed on layered glass panels. The artwork is located along a pedestrian corridor within the station. Track infrastructure As Mount Dennis is a terminal station for Line 5, there is a diamond crossover to the east for reversing trains and tail tracks for overnight train storage to the west. Flanking the crossover is the lead-in trackage to the Eglinton Maintenance and Storage Facility to the north, which includes an additional trailing-point crossover to the east to access the eastbound mainline. The line then crosses Black Creek Drive and the eponymous Black Creek on an elevated guideway before descending into the western portal of the line's underground tunnels towards Keelesdale station. == Surface connections ==

The following bus routes serve Mount Dennis station: ==References==