THE GS TRAM SITE

TORONTO

ONTARIO, CANADA

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28 Feb. 1963

The Toronto system at the opening of the University subway extension of the Yonge line on 28 Feb. 1963.

VIDEOS

Toronto PCC streetcar video Toronto Peter Witt streetcar video Toronto old subway video
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

Toronto PCC streetcar Toronto Peter Witt streetcar Toronto subway train

MAPS

Toronto-1963 tram map

INSET: CENTRAL TORONTO

Toronto downtown tram map 1963

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):


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 Ave. - 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 Ave. - Coxwell & Queen
D DUNDAS City Hall Loop - Bay St. - Dundas St. - Runnymede & Dundas
DT Danforth Tripper Bedford Loop - Bloor St. - Danforth Ave. - Coxwell & Danforth
E EARLSCOURT Lansdowne & St. Clair - St Clair Ave. - 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 Ave. - Dundas St. - Broadview Av. - Gerrard St. - Pape Ave. - Pape & Danforth
K KING Dundas W & Bloor - Roncesvalles Ave. - King St. - Queen St. - Broadview Ave. - Broadview & Danforth
KR KINGSTON ROAD McCaul Loop - Queen St. - Kingston Rd. - Victoria Park Ave. & Kingston Rd. (Bingham Loop)
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 Ave. - Oakwood & St. Clair (- St. Clair Ave. - Yonge & St. Clair)
SC ST. CLAIR (Avon Loop - Weston Rd. -) Keele & St. Clair - St. Clair Ave. - Yonge & St. Clair

SUBWAY ROUTE

Y YONGE-UNIVERSITY Eglinton - Yonge - Union Station - University - St.George & Bloor

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