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| Above: YouTubeCA video - O-Train Confederation Line: Canada's Newest Rapid Transit System - Length: 10:56 mins. | Above: YouTubeCA video - OC Transpo Trillium Line O-Train (Bayview-Greenboro) - Length: 10:00 mins. |
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MAP
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ROUTES
Operator: OC Transpo
ELECTRIC LRT ROUTE
| C | Confederation Line | Tunney’s Pasture - Bayview - Parliament - U of Ottawa - St. Laurent - Blair |
DIESEL LRT ROUTE
| T | Trillium Line | Bayview - Carling - Carleton University - Greenboro |
The designations C and T are for convenience only, and are not used by the operator.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM
NETWORK LENGTH
- Trillium Line: 8 km.
- Confederation Line: 12.5 km.
HISTORY
- Horse-drawn streetcars: 21 July 1870 - 1893
- Electric streetcars: 29 July 1891 - 1 May 1959.
- Trillium Line (Diesel LRT): 15 Oct. 2001 - today.
- Confederation Line (Electric LRT): 14 Sept. 2019 - today.
GAUGE
- Ottawa streetcars: 1435 mm.
- Modern LRT lines: 1435 mm.
SOURCES
- Pence, H. "Ottawa: A tale of two systems" Tramways & Urban Transit, Sept. 2015 (82: 984), p.450-454.
- Simons, V. "Ottawa welcomes the Confederation Line" Tramways & Urban Transit, Dec. 2019 (78: 933), p.354-357.
WIKIS
WEB SITES
- Canadian Street Railways
- Colin Churcher's railway pages
- Distribution of street cars and buses - Ottawa Transportation Commission (1948)
- OC Transpo
- Ottawa Electric Railway & Ottawa Transportation Commission - Trolleys in Canada’s capital [article by A. Clegg]
- Colin Churcher's railway pages
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