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| Above: YouTubeCA video - Toronto Streetcar Documentary 1988 : The PCC Era , Toronto's Red Rockets TTC - Length: 58:50 mins. | Above: YouTubeCA video - TTC Peter Witt Streetcars - Circa 1960 - Length: 3:45 mins. | Above: YouTubeCA video - Original Toronto Subway Cars in the 1980s - Length: 43:39 mins. |
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MAPS
INSET: CENTRAL TORONTO
ABBREVIATIONS ON THE MAPS
| CA | Coxwell Av. | MS | Main Street |
| CH | City Hall Loop | RR | Runnymede Rd. |
| KR | Kingston Rd. | WB | Woodbine Av. |
| LL | Luttrell Loop |
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DISCONTINUATION DATES OF STREETCAR TRACKS BETWEEN 30 MARCH 1954 AND 20 MAY 1963 (affected route indicators in parantheses):
- 1954 May 15: Church St. (CH)
- 1954 July 1: Kingston Road (between Victoria Park Av. and Birchmount Loop) (KR)
- 1957 Jan. 21: Davenport Rd (between St. Clair & Lansdowne) (H)
- 1960 Jan. 1: Oakwood Av. (N of Rogers Rd.) - Eglinton Av. (between Gilbert Loop and Oakwood) (O)
- 1963 Feb. 27: Dupont St. - Bay St. - Queens Quay (to York Loop) (DU)
- 1963 May 20: Dufferin St. (between King St. and Dufferin Loop) (KR)
ROUTES
Operator: Toronto Transit Commission (TTC)
Note: The lettered route designations are of an indicative nature only, they were never used as such. The official names of the routes are given in the second column in capitals.
STREETCAR ROUTES
| B | BLOOR | Jane & Bloor - Bloor St. - Danforth Av. - Luttrell Loop |
| BA | BATHURST | Church Loop - Adelaide St. - Bathurst St. - Bathurst & St. Clair |
| C | CARLTON | High Park Loop - College St. - Carlton St. - Parliament St. - Gerrard St. - Main St. - Danforth Av. - Luttrell Loop |
| CH | Church | Church & Danforth - Church St. - Scott & Front |
| CX | COXWELL | Coxwell & Danforth - Coxwell Av. - Coxwell & Queen |
| D | DUNDAS | City Hall Loop - Bay St. - Dundas St. - Runnymede & Dundas |
| DT | Danforth Tripper | Bedford Loop - Bloor St. - Danforth Av. - Coxwell & Danforth |
| DU | DUPONT | York Loop - Queens Quay - Bay St. - Dupont St. - Christie Loop (Christie & Dupont) |
| E | EARLSCOURT | Lansdowne & St. Clair - St Clair Av. - Yonge & St. Clair |
| F | FORT | (Exhibition -) Fleet Loop - Bathurst St. - Wolseley Loop |
| H | HARBORD | Davenport & St. Clair (Townsley Loop) - Davenport Rd. - Dovercourt Rd. - Bloor St. - Ossington Av. - Harbord St. - Spadina Av. - Dundas St. - Broadview Av. - Gerrard St. - Pape Av. - Pape & Danforth |
| K | KING | Dundas W & Bloor - Roncesvalles Av. - King St. - Queen St. - Broadview Av. - Broadview & Danforth |
| KR | KINGSTON ROAD | Dufferin Loop - Dufferin St. - King St. - Queen St. - Kingston Rd. - Birchmount Loop [No night or weekend service] |
| LB | LONG BRANCH | Roncesvalles Loop - Lake Shore Blvd. - Long Branch |
| O | OAKWOOD | Gilbert Loop - Eglinton Av. - Oakwood Av. - Oakwood & St. Clair |
| P | PARLIAMENT | Parliament & Bloor - Parliament St. - Parliament & King |
| Q | QUEEN | Parkside Loop - Lake Shore Blvd. - Queen St. - Neville Park |
| R | ROGERS ROAD | Bicknell & Rogers Road - Rogers Road - Oakwood Av. - Oakwood & St. Clair |
| SC | ST. CLAIR | (Avon Loop - Weston Rd. -) Keele & St. Clair - St. Clair Av. - Mt. Pleasant Rd. - Mt. Pleasant & Eglinton |
SUBWAY ROUTE
| Y | YONGE | Eglinton - Yonge - Union Station |
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM
NETWORK LENGTH
- Streetcars: ? km.
- Subway: ? km.
HISTORY
- Urban treetcars: (horse-powered) 11 Sept. 1861 - 30 Aug. 1894; (electric) 15 Aug. 1892 - today.
- Interurban streetcars: (horse-powered) 26 Jan. 1885 - 1890; (electric) 1 Sept. 1890 - 10 Oct. 1948.
- Subway: 30 Mar. 1954 - today.
- LRT (Scarborough Rapid Transit): 22 Mar. 1985 - 24 July 2023.
GAUGE
- Urban streetcars (Toronto): 1495 mm.
- Interurban streetcars: 1435 mm. (1885 - 1927); 1495 mm. (1927 - 1948)
- Subway : 1495 mm.
- LRT: 1435 mm.
SOURCES
- Bromley, J.F. TTC '28: The electric railway services of the Toronto Transportation Commission in 1928. Toronto: Upper Canada Railway Society, 1968.
- Filey, M. Not a one-horse town: 125 years of Toronto and its streetcars. Toronto: [Author], 1986.
- Filey, M. The TTC story: The first seventy-five years. Toronto/Oxford: Dundurn Press, 1996.
- Simons, V. "Toronto: Making the move", Tramways & Urban Transit, Oct. 2013 (76:910), p.420-426.
- Skelsey, G. "Toronto: The TTC's streetcars at 80 (Part 4)", Tramways & Urban Transit, Jan. 2001 (64:757), p.15-18.
- Taplin, M.R. Tramways of North America, including rapid transit.Hassocks (England): Light Rail Transit Association, 1982 (?).
- Wickson, E.A. "Toronto's new Light Rail Line". In: Light Rail Review 2. London: Light Rail Transit Association, 2000 [p.63-65].
WIKIS
- Line 3 Scarborough
- Metrolinx
- Metropolitan line (Toronto)
- North Yonge Railways
- Toronto and York Radial Railway
- Toronto streetcar system
- Toronto subway
- Toronto Transit Commission
WEB SITES
- Canadian Street Railways
- Metrolinx
- Steve Munro's Web Site (dedicated to public transit in Toronto)
- Toronto (on UrbanRailNet)
- Toronto Transit Commission (TTC)
- Transit Toronto
- TTS (Toronto Transportation Society) Online
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