Bayview Station

After breakfast Debra and I went over to the OTrain's new Bayview Station. It's one of the stops on the not yet in service Confederation line; however, it opened last Thursday for Trillium line service.

The city is still doing test runs of the Alstom Citadis Spirit trains on the Confederation line in preparation for opening on 14 Sept. That's one over on the left heading into Bayview. Dead centre and above is the Peace Tower at the Parliament buildings. Its gothic architecture is in stark contrast to all the modernist stuff popping up in the core.

Bayview station is a two-level job: the upper services the Confederation line, and on the lower you can catch a train on the Trillium line.

That's an Alstom Citadis Spirit departing the station on the Confederation level.

And down on the lower level is a Trillium line diesel waiting a few minutes before taking another run.

There's a number of bike paths running along side the station making access good.

Bayview is one end of the Trillium line, and there's a serious end-stop where the track terminates.

The Confederation line opens for business at 2pm on 14 Sept and hopefully your intrepid 30 Squares reporter will be there for all the electrified action. It turns out the city accepted my request to be invited to media events, so I'll keep my fingers crossed that it'll happen and see if I can get the inside scoop on day one operations :-)

Stay tuned.