Sheppard–Yonge is a station on the Line 1 Yonge–University and Line 4 Sheppard of the Toronto subway. It is the third-busiest station in the system, after Bloor–Yonge and St. George, serving a combined total of approximately people per day in.HistorySheppard-Yonge first opened as Sheppard in 1974, when the Yonge-University subway line was extended from Eglinton to Finch. The extension was planned to open in two stages with Sheppard as the temporary terminus, but construction north of York Mills was delayed by various problems and in 1973, York Mills was opened as the temporary terminus instead; Sheppard and Finch station opened in 1974. The H-2 class subway cars delivered in 1971 included destination signs for "Sheppard via downtown" on the expectation that it would be a terminal station.The station was expanded and renamed "Sheppard-Yonge" in 2002 with the opening of the Sheppard subway line, for which this station became the western terminus. The renaming was similar to that of Bloor-Yonge Station. Unlike Bloor-Yonge, where the signs on Line 1 platforms still read "Bloor" and those on the Line 2 Bloor-Danforth read "Yonge", Sheppard-Yonge is given its full name on both sets of platforms; all existing signs within the station were changed to give the new name. At that time, this station became accessible with elevators. When the automated announcements were installed on Toronto's subway trains, Line 1 trains referred to the station as "Sheppard" while Line 4 trains referred to the station as "Sheppard-Yonge", the new Toronto Rocket subway trains refer to the station on both lines as "Sheppard-Yonge" followed by "Change for Line 1/4" respectively.
