INSET: DOWNTOWN SAN FRANCISCO
ROUTES
Operator: San Francisco Municipal Railway (MUNI)
STREETCAR ROUTES OPERATED BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MUNICIPAL RAILWAY
| B |
Ferries / Bridge Terminal – Market Street – Geary St. – Geary Blvd. – Ocean Beach |
| C |
Ferries / Bridge Terminal – Market Street – Geary St. – Geary Blvd. – 2nd Av. – California St. – Lincoln Park |
| D |
Ferries / Bridge Terminal – Market Street – Van Ness Av. – Union St. – Greenwich St. – Presidio |
| E |
Embarcadero – Columbus Av. – Union St. – Presidio |
| F |
Scott St. – Chestnut St. – North Point St. – Columbus Av. – Stockton St. – Market St. |
| H |
Fort Mason – Van Ness Av. – 11th St. – Potrero Av. – Precita Av. |
| J |
Ferries / Bridge Terminal – Market Street – Church St. – 30th St. |
| K |
Ferries / Bridge Terminal – Market Street – Twin Peaks Tunnel – West Portal – Ocean Ave.- Plymouth Av. – Grafton Av. |
| L |
Ferries / Bridge Terminal – Market Street – Twin Peaks Tunnel – Taraval St. – San Francisco Zoo |
| N |
Ferries / Bridge Terminal – Market Street – Judah St. – La Playa |
STREETCAR ROUTES OPERATED BY THE MARKET STREET RAILWAY
| 1 |
Ferries – Market Street – Sutter St. – Presidio Av. – California St. – Clement St. – Lincoln Park |
| 2 |
Ferries – Market Street – Sutter St. – Presidio Av. – California St. – Euclid Av. – Clement St. – Geary Blvd. – Sutro Heights |
| 3 |
Bridge Terminal – Market Street – Sutter St. – Fillmore St. – Jackson St. – Presidio Av. |
| 4 |
Bridge Terminal – Market Street – Sutter St. – Fillmore St. – Sacramento St. – 6th Av. – Fulton St. (Golden Gate Park) |
| 5 |
Bridge Terminal – Market Street – McAllister St. – Fulton St. – Ocean Beach |
| 6 |
Ferries – Market Street – Haight St. – Parnassus Av. – 9th Av. – Forest Hill |
| 7 |
Bridge Terminal – Market Street – Haight St. – Lincoln Way – Ocean Beach |
| 8 |
Ferries – Market Street – Eureka Valley |
| 9 |
Bridge Terminal – Market Street – Valencia St. – Noe Valley / Bernal Heights |
| 11 |
Ferries – Mission Street – 24th St. |
| 12 |
Ferries – Mission Street – Ocean Ave. – Sloat Blvd. – San Francisco Zoo |
| 14 |
Ferries – Mission Street – Ocean Ave. – Daly City (at San Jose Av.) |
| 17 |
Bridge Terminal – Market Street – Haight St. – Lincoln Way – 20th Av. – Parkside (Wawona St.) |
| 20 |
SP Terminal – 4th St. – O'Farrell St. [back: Ellis St.] – Divisadero St. – Oak St. [back: Page St.] – Stanyan St. (Golden Gate Park) |
| 21 |
Ferries – Market Street – Hayes St. – Fulton St. – 8th Av. – Clement St. |
| 22 |
Broadway – Fillmore St. – 16th St. – 18th St. – 3rd Av. (Potrero) |
| 28 |
Ferries – Folsom St. – 2nd St. – SP Terminal |
| 31 |
Ferries – Market Street – Eddy S. [back: Turk St.] – Turk St. – Balboa St. – 30th Av. |
ROUTE OPERATED BY THE SAN MATEO INTERURBAN RAILWAY (UNDER MARKET STREET RAILWAY MANAGEMENT)
| 40 |
5th & Market St. – Mission Street – Ocean Ave. – Daly City – San Mateo (Third & "B" Streets) |
The San Mateo Interurban Railway ceased operation on 15 Jan. 1949.
CABLE CAR ROUTES OPERATED BY THE MARKET STREET RAILWAY CO.
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Powell & Market – Powell St. – Mason St. – Bay St. |
| |
Powell & Market – Powell St. – Jackson St. [Back: Union St.] – Alta Plaza Park |
CABLE CAR ROUTES OPERATED BY THE MARKET STREET RAILWAY CO.
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California & Drumm – California St. – Presidio Av. |
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Jones & Market – Jones St. – Pine St. – Hyde St. – Beach St. |
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O'Farrell & Market – O'Farrell St. – Jones St. – Pine St. – Hyde St. – Beach St. |
INTERURBAN ROUTES
Operator: Key System
Routes from the Ferries / Bridge Terminal across the Bay Bridge to Oakland and beyond.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM
NETWORK LENGTH
- Streetcar lines: ? km.
- Cable car lines: ? km.
- Interurban lines (Key System): 106 km.
HISTORY
- Streetcars: (horse-powered) 4 July 1860 - 1882; (electric) 1892 - today.
- Cable-cars: 1 Sept. 1873 - today.
- BART (Subway): 11 Sept. 1972 - today.
- Key System (Interurbans): 26 Oct. 1903 - (Into San Francisco only after the opening of the Bay Street Bridge on 12 Nov. 1936) - 20 Apr. 1958.
GAUGE
- Streetcars: 1435 mm.
- Cable-cars: 1067 mm.
- BART (Subway): 1676 mm.
TRAM PRESERVATION
The San Francisco Railway Museum displays many relics of the streetcar and cable car history of the city. The
Market Street Railway operates many historic streetcars over actual line F of the San Francisco streetcar system (Muni). The cable car system has its own museum at the
Cable Car Museum at Washington and Mason.
SOURCES
PRINT
- "Los Angeles and San Francisco", The Modern Tramway, Nov. 1949 (12:143), p.221-224.
- Currington, B. "San Francisco Municipal Railway modernisation (Part I)", Modern Tramway & Light Rail Transit, Oct. 1984 (47:155), p.339-347.
- Rice, W. "San Francisco rail is moving forward", Tramways & Urban Transit, Sept. 1998 (61:729), p.336-339.
- Russell, M. "San Francisco's decade of achievement", Tramways & Urban Transit, Apr. 2010 (73: 868), p.156-157.
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