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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 - TTC Peter Witt Streetcars - Circa 1960 - Length: 3:45 mins. | Above: YouTubeCA video - T002 - Bay Brill Witts - Memories of North Yonge - Part 1/3 - Length: 17:51 mins. |
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MAPS
INSET: CENTRAL TORONTO
INSET: THE TORONTO AREA
ABBREVIATIONS ON THE MAPS
| CA | Coxwell Av. | MC | McCaul Loop |
| CH | City Hall Loop | MS | Main Street |
| KR | Kingston Rd. | RR | Runnymede Rd. |
| LL | Luttrell Loop | WB | Woodbine Av. |
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DISCONTINUATION DATES OF STREETCAR TRACKS BETWEEN 14 OCT. 1945 AND 30 MARCH 1954 (Opening of the Yonge Subway) [affected route indicators in parantheses]:
- 1945 Oct. 14: Long Branch - Small Arms Loop (LB)
- 1947 Jan. 5: Sherbourne St. (SH)
- 1947 July 19: Landsdowne Av. (between Dundas & St. Clair) (L)
- 1947 Oct. 6: Lappin St. - Dovercourt Rd. - Hallam St. - Ossington Av. (to Bloor) (H)
- 1947 Dec. 8: Dovercourt Rd. (between Bloor & College); Ossington Av. (between College & Queen); Shaw St. (between Queen & King) (DC)
- 1948 Sept. 13: Keele St. (between Dundas & St. Clair); Avon loop - Weston Rd. - CNR Subway (W)
- 1948 Oct. 10: Spadina Av. (between Bloor & Harbour and between Dundas & Front) (S)
- 1948 Oct. 10: Yonge St. (interurban service, north of Glen Echo) (NY)
- 1954 March 30: Avenue Rd. (between Davenport Rd. & St. Clair Av.) (BY)
- 1954 March 30: Yonge St. - Front St. - Union Station (Y)
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.
URBAN STREETCAR ROUTES
| B | BLOOR | Jane & Bloor - Bloor St. - Danforth Av. - Luttrell Loop |
| BA | BATHURST | Church Loop - Adelaide St. - Bathurst St. - Bathurst & St. Clair |
| BE | BEACH | York St. - (King St.) / (back: Church St. - Wellington St.) - King St. - Queen St. - Neville Park [Rush hours only] |
| BY | BAY | York Loop - Queens Quay - City Hall Loop - Bay St. - Davenport Rd. - Avenue Rd. - St. Clair Av. - Lansdowne Loop |
| C | CARLTON | High Park Loop - College St. - Carlton St. - Parliament St. - Gerrard St. - Main St. - Danforth Av. - Luttrell Loop |
| CH | Church | Church & Danforth - Church St. - Scott & Front |
| CX | COXWELL | Coxwell & Danforth - Coxwell Av. - Coxwell & Queen |
| D | DUNDAS | City Hall Loop - Bay St. - Dundas St. - Runnymede & Dundas |
| DC | DOVERCOURT | Davenport & St. Clair & (Townsley Loop) - Davenport Rd. - Dovercourt Rd. - College St. - Ossington Av. - Queen St. - Shaw St. - King St. |
| DF | DUFFERIN | King St. - Dufferin St. - Dufferin Loop [Rush hours only |
| DU | DUPONT | City Hall Loop - Bay St. - Davenport Rd. - Dupont St. - Christie Loop (Christie & Dupont) |
| F | FORT | (Exhibition -) Fleet Loop - Bathurst St. - Wolseley Loop |
| H | HARBORD | Lansdowne & Dupont (Royce Loop) - Lansdowne St. - Lappin St. - Dovercourt Rd. - Hallam St. - Ossington Av. - Harbord St. - Spadina Av. - Dundas St. - Broadview Av. - Gerrard St. - Pape Av. - Pape & Danforth |
| K | KING | Dundas W & Bloor - Roncesvalles Av. - King St. - Queen St. - Broadview Av. - Broadview & Danforth |
| KR | KINGSTON ROAD | McCaul Loop - Queen St. - Kingston Rd. - Birchmount Loop |
| L | LANDSDOWNE | College Loop - Landsdowne Av. - Landsdowne Loop |
| LB | LONG BRANCH | Roncesvalles Loop - Lake Shore Blvd. - Long Branch - Small Arms Loop |
| O | OAKWOOD | Gilbert Loop - Eglinton Av. - Oakwood Av. - Oakwood & St. Clair |
| P | PARLIAMENT | Church Loop - Queen St. - Parliament St. - Parliament & King |
| Q | QUEEN | Parkside Loop - Lake Shore Blvd. - Queen St. - Neville Park |
| R | ROGERS ROAD | Bicknell & Rogers Road - Rogers Road - Oakwood Av. - Oakwood & St. Clair |
| S | SPADINA | Spadina & Bloor - Spadina Av. - Front St. |
| SC | ST. CLAIR | [(]Rush hours: Avon Loop - Weston Rd. - ] Keele & St. Clair - St. Clair Av. - Mt. Pleasant Rd. - Mt. Pleasant & Eglinton |
| SH | SHERBOURNE | Rosedale Loop (Sherbourne & Bloor) - Sherbourne St. - Front St. |
| W | WESTON ROAD | Keele & Dundas - Keel St. - Weston Rd. - CNR Subway |
| Y | YONGE | Union Station - Front St. - Yonge St. - City Limits (Glen Echo) |
INTERURBAN STREETCAR ROUTE
| NY | NORTH YONGE | Glen Echo - Yonge St. - Thornhill - Richmond Hill |
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM
NETWORK LENGTH
- Urban streetcars: ? km.
- Suburban streetcar line: 22 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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