Woodbine station
station on Line 2 Bloor–Danforth in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Woodbine is a subway station on Line 2 Bloor–Danforth in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The station is at the southeast corner of Woodbine Avenue and Strathmore Boulevard, just north of Danforth Avenue. The station opened in 1966 and was the eastern terminus of the line until 1968.
Description
The main entrance, collector, and bus platform are at street level (on the northeast corner of Woodbine and Danforth), the concourse is on the second level, and the subway platforms are on the lower level. The bus platform has 2 bus bays. Wi-Fi service is available at this station. Automatic sliding doors, accessible fare gates and the addition of elevators, made the station fully accessible in late September 2017 which also coincided with the opening of a new secondary automated entrance on the northwest corner of Woodbine and Danforth.
The artwork titled Directions Intersections Connections by Marmin Borins hangs on the exterior wall at the station's bus platform. Covering 93 m2 (1,000 sq ft), the artwork consists of brightly coloured coated metal panels arranged in geometric patterns. According to the TTC's Public Art page, the geometric patterns "express the motion and directional routes of transit, the intersections of communities and place, and the connections of site to both the present and the past".
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Woodbine station” as station on Line 2 Bloor–Danforth in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as station on Line 2 Bloor–Danforth in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1042190. Authority coordinates are 43.686, -79.313. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1966, 1968 and 2017.
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This entry incorporates text from “Woodbine station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.