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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. |
PHOTOS
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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 |
I created the above maps by overlaying OpenStreetMap (OSM) maps with my own data. Copyright on the OSM maps is © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under a CC-BY-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 licence).
Please note that the OSM maps used as templates for these maps correspond to the situation at the time the maps were downloaded and may show features that did not exist at the time the GS Tram Site is supposed to show. In particular, they may show bridges and highways that were built later.
Streetcar service was discontinued on the following streets and street sections on 25 Feb. 1966 (before the opening of the Bloor-Danforth subway) (streetcar routes involved are noted in parentheses):
- Adelaide St. (one-way eastward) (BA)
- Bathurst St. (between Bloor and St. Clair) (BA, F)
- Bloor St. (between Keele and Woodbine) (B, DT)
- Coxwell Av. (CX)
- Lansdowne & Davenport (St. Clarens Loop) - Davenport Rd. - Dovercourt Rd. (H)
- Ossington Av. - Harbord St. - Spadina Av. (to Dundas St.) (H)
- Pape Av. between Gerrard & Danforth (H)
- Parliament (P)
- Weston Rd. (between the Avon Loop and St. Clair Av.) (SC)
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 & King - King St. [back: Adelaide St.] - Bathurst St. - Bathurst & St. Clair |
| C | CARLTON | High Park Loop - College St. - Carlton St. - Parliament St. - Gerrard St. - Main St. - Main & Danforth |
| 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 |
| E | EARLSCOURT | Lansdowne & St. Clair - St Clair Av. - Mt. Pleasant Rd. - Mt. Pleasant & Eglinton |
| F | FORT | (Exhibition -) Fleet Loop - Bathurst St. - Bathurst & St. Clair |
| H | HARBORD | Lansdowne & Davenport (St. Clarens 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 | Roncesvalles Loop - King St. - Queen St. - Kingston Rd. - Victoria Park Av. & Kingston Rd. (Bingham Loop) [Rush-hour service only] |
| LB | LONG BRANCH | Humber Loop - Lake Shore Blvd. - Long Branch |
| P | PARLIAMENT | Parliament & Bloor - Parliament St. - Parliament & King |
| Q | QUEEN | Humber Loop - Queensway - Queen St. - Neville Park |
| R | ROGERS ROAD | Bicknell & Rogers Road - Rogers Road - Oakwood Av. - Oakwood & St. Clair (- St. Clair Av. - Yonge & St. Clair) |
| SC | ST. CLAIR | (Avon Loop - Weston Rd. -) Keele & St. Clair - St. Clair Av. - Yonge & St. Clair |
SUBWAY ROUTE
| Y | YONGE-UNIVERSITY | Eglinton - Yonge - Union Station - University - St.George & Bloor |
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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