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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 - Original Toronto Subway Cars in the 1980s - Length: 43:39 mins. |
PHOTOS
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MAPS
INSET: CENTRAL TORONTO
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 Mount Pleasant (MP) streetcar route: 24 July 1976.
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 (St. Clair Stn.) |
| 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 |
| MP | MT. PLEASANT | Yonge & St. Clair (St. Clair Stn.) - St. Clair Ave. - Mt. Pleasant Rd. - Mt. Pleasant & Eglinton |
| Q | QUEEN | Humber Loop - Queensway - Queen St. - Neville Park |
| SC | ST. CLAIR | Keele & St. Clair - St. Clair Ave. - Yonge & St. Clair (St. Clair Stn.) |
SUBWAY ROUTES
| B | BLOOR-DANFORTH | Bloor & Islington - Bloor - Danforth - Warden |
| YORK | YONGE-UNIVERSITY | Finch - Yonge - Union Station - University - Bloor & St.George |
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM
NETWORK LENGTH
- Streetcars: ? km.
- Subway: ? km.
HISTORY
- Streetcars: (horse-powered) 11 Sept. 1861 - 30 Aug. 1894; (electric) 15 Aug. 1892 - today.
- Subway: 30 Mar. 1954 - today.
- LRT (Scarborough Rapid Transit): 22 Mar. 1985 - 24 July 2023..
GAUGE
- Streetcars: 1495 mm.
- 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
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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