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| Above: YouTubeCA video - Toronto Streetcars TTC CLRV Streetcars on Church, Wellington and York Streets - Length: 4:36 mins. | Above: YouTubeCA video - Light Metro in Toronto, Canada 2018 (Line 3 - Scarborough) - Length: 5:29 mins. | Above: YouTubeCA video - TTC Subway Compilation - Length: 21:18 mins. |
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MAPS
INSET: CENTRAL TORONTO
ABBREVIATIONS ON THE MAPS
| CS | Church Street | UA | University Av. |
| KR | Kingston Road | US | Union Station (Railway) |
| MS | Main Street Station | WS | Wellington Street |
| PS | Parliament Street | YS | York Street |
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.
ROUTES
Operator: Toronto Transit Commission (TTC)
STREETCAR ROUTES
Note: The numbered route designations have been in use since the late 1970s . However, the route names also continue to be used.
| 501 | QUEEN | Long Branch - Lake Shore Blvd. - Queensway - Queen St. - Neville Park |
| 502 | DOWNTOWNER | McCaul Loop - Queen St. - Kingston Rd. - Victoria Park Ave. & Kingston Rd. (Bingham Loop) |
| (503) | KINGSTON ROAD TRIPPER | York St. - King St.(return: Church St. - Wellington St.) - King St. - Queen St. - Kingston Rd. - Victoria Park Ave. & Kingston Rd. (Bingham Loop) [Rush hour service] |
| 504 | KING | Dundas W & Bloor - Roncesvalles Ave. - King St. - Queen St. - Broadview Ave. - Broadview & Danforth |
| 505 | DUNDAS | Dundas W & Bloor - Dundas St. - Gerrard St. - Broadview Ave. - Broadview & Danforth |
| 506 | CARLTON | High Park Loop - College St. - Carlton St. - Gerrard St. - Main St. - Main & Danforth |
| (508) | LAKESHORE | Long Branch - Lake Shore Blvd. - Queensway - King St. - (Parliament St.) [back: Victoria & Queen - Queen St. - Church St.-] [Rush hour service] |
| 509 | HARBOURFRONT | Union Station - Queens Quay - Fleet St. - Exhibition |
| 510 | SPADINA | Union Station - Queens Quay - Spadina Ave. - Spadina & Bloor |
| 511 | BATHURST | Bathurst & Bloor - Bathurst St. - Fleet St. - Exhibition |
| 512 | ST. CLAIR | Gunns Loop - St. Clair Ave. - Yonge & St. Clair |
SCARBOROUGH LIGHT RAPID TRANSIT (LRT) LINE
| LRT | Kennedy Station - Scarborough Town Centre (McCowan) |
SUBWAY ROUTES
Note: The lettered route designations are of an indicative nature only. The official names of the routes are given in the second column in capitals.
| B | BLOOR-DANFORTH | Kipling - Bloor - Danforth - Kennedy |
| S | SHEPPARD | Yonge - Sheppard - Don Mills |
| Y | YONGE-UNIVERSITY-SPADINA | Finch - Yonge - Union Station - University - Spadina - Spadina Expressway - Downsview |
The subway route designations B, S and Y are of an indicative nature and were not used by the operator.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM
NETWORK LENGTH
- Streetcar lines: 94 km.
- Scarborough LRT line: 6 km.
- Subway lines: 62 km.
HISTORY
- Urban treetcars: (horse-powered) 11 Sept. 1861 - 30 Aug. 1894; (electric) 15 Aug. 1892 - today.
- Interurban streetcars: (horse-powered) 26 Jan. 1885 - 1890; (electric) 1 Sept. 1890 - 10 Oct. 1948.
- Subway: 30 Mar. 1954 - today.
- LRT (Scarborough Rapid Transit): 22 Mar. 1985 - 24 July 2023.
GAUGE
- Urban streetcars (Toronto): 1495 mm.
- Interurban streetcars: 1435 mm. (1885 - 1927); 1495 mm. (1927 - 1948)
- 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
- Line 3 Scarborough
- Metrolinx
- Metropolitan line (Toronto)
- North Yonge Railways
- Toronto and York Radial Railway
- Toronto streetcar system
- Toronto subway
- Toronto Transit Commission
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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