Subway Infrastructure in The Vicinity
Subway trains travelling eastbound towards Victoria Park Station from Main Street Station exit the underground tunnel at the Tyra Portal several hundred feet from Victoria Park into an outdoor section of track. Then, a short section of the line is elevated through Victoria Park Station. Continuing east after the station, the track returns to ground level and angles northeast, diagonal to the street grid. Warden Woods Park, a city park that is mostly covered in forest with a central trail, is located on the northwest side of the tracks (on the left side of a train travelling eastbound). The scenery is thus relatively unique—subway trains travelling through forest, particularly when lush trees conceal the neighbourhood on the other side of the tracks in the summer with their leaves.
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