Toronto 1978

VIDEOS

Above: YouTube^CA video - Toronto Streetcar Documentary 1988 : The PCC Era , Toronto's Red Rockets TTC - Length: 58:50 mins.

Above: YouTube^CA video - Original Toronto Subway Cars in the 1980s - Length: 43:39 mins.

PHOTOS

MAPS

Toronto-1978 tram map

INSET: CENTRAL TORONTO

Toronto downtown tram map 1978

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.

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. - Spadina W Station
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
SC	ST. CLAIR	Keele & St. Clair - St. Clair Ave. - Yonge & St. Clair

SUBWAY ROUTES

B	BLOOR-DANFORTH	Bloor & Islington - Bloor - Danforth - Warden
Y	YONGE-UNIVERSITY-SPADINA	Finch - Yonge - Union Station - University - Spadina - Spadina Expressway - Wilson

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

PRINT

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

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TORONTO

ONTARIO, CANADA

Aug. 1978