THE GS TRAM SITE

TORONTO

ONTARIO, CANADA

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2 Apr. 1973

The system after the opening of the York Mills extension on the Yonge subway line on 31 Mar. 1973 and the creation of the Downtowner (DT) streetcar route on 2 Apr. 1973.

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-1973 tram map

INSET: CENTRAL TORONTO

Toronto downtown tram map 1973



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 the Rogers Road (R) streetcar route: 19 July 1974.


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 Bathurst & Bloor - Bathurst St. - Fleet St. - Exhibition
C CARLTON High Park Loop - College St. - Carlton St. - Gerrard St. - Main St. - Main & Danforth
D DUNDAS Dundas W & Bloor - Dundas St. - Gerrard St. - Broadview Ave. - Broadview & Danforth
DT DOWNTOWNER Bathurst & Bloor - Bathurst St. - Queen St. - Kingston Rd. - Victoria Park Ave. & Kingston Rd. (Bingham 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 Roncesvalles & Queen - King St. - Queen St. - Kingston Rd. - Victoria Park Ave. & Kingston Rd. (Bingham Loop)
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

B BLOOR-DANFORTH Bloor & Islington - Bloor - Danforth - Warden
Y YONGE-UNIVERSITY York Mills - Yonge - Union Station - University - Bloor & St.George

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM

NETWORK LENGTH



HISTORY

GAUGE


SOURCES

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