THE GS TRAM SITE

TORONTO

ONTARIO, CANADA

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26 Feb. 1966

The Toronto system on the day of the opening of the Bloor-Danforth subway line.

VIDEOS

Toronto PCC 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 - Original Toronto Subway Cars in the 1980s - Length: 43:39 mins.

PHOTOS

Toronto PCC streetcar Toronto subway train

MAPS

Toronto-1966 tram map

INSET: CENTRAL TORONTO

Toronto downtown tram map 1966

ABBREVIATIONs ON THE MAPS

LL Luttrell Loop RR Runnymede Rd.
MS Main Street WB Woodbine Av.


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.


Discontinuation of routes on 11 May 1968 (after the extensions of the Bloor subway to Islington and Warden):


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

BA BATHURST Exhibition - Fleet St. - Bathurst St. - Bathurst & Bloor
BS BLOOR SHUTTLE Jane & Bloor - Bloor St. - Keel Station
C CARLTON High Park Loop - College St. - Carlton St. - Gerrard St. - Main St. - Main & Danforth
D DUNDAS Runnymede & Dundas - Dundas St. - Gerrard St. - Broadview Ave. - Broadview & Danforth
DS DANFORTH SHUTTLE Danforth & Woodbine - Danforth Ave. - Luttrell Loop
E EARLSCOURT Lansdowne & St. Clair - St Clair Ave. - Yonge & St. Clair
K KING Dundas W & Bloor - Roncesvalles Ave. - King St. - Queen St. - Broadview Ave. - Broadview & Danforth
KR KINGSTON ROAD [Church St. - Wellington St. - York St. Loop] - King St. - Queen St. - Kingston Rd. - Victoria Park Ave. & Kingston Rd. (Bingham Loop) [Rush hours and midday only]
LB LONG BRANCH Humber Loop - Lake Shore Blvd. - Long Branch
Q QUEEN Humber Loop - Queensway - Queen St. - Neville Park
R ROGERS ROAD Bicknell & Rogers Road - Rogers Road - Oakwood Ave. - Oakwood & St. Clair [In rush hours: - St. Clair Ave. - Yonge & St. Clair]
SC ST. CLAIR Keele & St. Clair - St. Clair Ave. - Mt. Pleasant Rd. - Mt. Pleasant & Eglinton

SUBWAY ROUTES

BD BLOOR-DANFORTH Bloor & Keele - Bloor - Danforth - Danforth & Woodbine
YB YONGE-BLOOR Eglinton - Yonge - Union Station - University - Bloor & St.George - Bloor - Bloor & Keele
YD YONGE-DANFORTH Eglinton - Yonge - Union Station - University - Bay Stn. - Bloor - Danforth - Danforth & Woodbinee

The three routes represent the interlining of the two subway lines, which ended on 4 Sept. 1966. After that date, the Bloor-Danforth (B) and Yonge-University (Y) lines were run separately.


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