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Toronto Civic Raiiwys MERGED VITH TORONTO RAILWAY CO, TOFORM TTC, &J Toronto Civic Raiiwys MERGED VITH TORONTO RAILWAY CO, TOFORM TTC, &J.,, At the time the Toronto Civic Railway's various rouLes Pares on the Civic Railway were laid down in City of Tor• wore built, the principal trolley operator in Toronto was onto by-law No. 6504. From 5«50 a.m. to midnight, adults paid the privately-owned Toronto Railway Company, which was oper• two cents cash, with tickets at six for 10 cents. Children ating under a JO year franchise granted in 1891. The Toronto under nine years of age paid one cent, infants in arms trav• City Council was actively conaidering the acquisition of the elled free. The night fare was five cents cash,. This abnor• Toronto Railway for municipal operation upon the expiration mally low fare structure precluded any possibility of profit• of its franchise in 1921. The Toronto Railway was therefore able operation. Numerous attempts were made to raise the unwilling to make large capital expenditures to expand its fares to the level of those of the Toronto Railway Company, facilities, due to the prospect of being forced to sell out but the original low fare structure which had been adopted at prices fixed by an arbitration board. The Railway was not for political reasons remained. obliged to build lines in the districts annexed by the City after I89I. GSKRAKD ROUTE The Gerrard route, in the eastern part of Toronto, was The City requested the Railway to build a number of such the first Civic car line to be completed and placed in oper• lines, but the latter declined to do so. The City then exer- ation. It commenced at the terminal of the Toronto Railway's sized the perogative vested in it by the agreement with the Parliament line, at Gerrard Street and Greenwood Ave,, and Railway, to build such lines as were required when the Rail• ran eastward to Gerrard and Main Sts,, 5.5 miles distant. way failed to so when petitioned. Three such lines were pro- The route was almost level for half a mile from the Green• .jected in 1910, and active work was taken up on them that wood end, then climbed a steep grade averaging 2.5 per cent .year. Two more routes were built subsequently. for almost a mile, with a final steep ascent of 4.2 per cent entering East Toronto. While the line was under construction, the materials used in building it were stored on a strip of Most of the Civic lines ware paved double track. The gauge the Grand Trunk Railway's right of way a short distance west adopted was that of the Toronto Railway Company, 4'10 7/8". of York (now Danforth, CN.R.) Station, and forwarded to the Power was purchased from the Toronto Hydro-Electric System, scene of operations on a temporary narrow gauge railway. The and was fed to each route from a nearby T,H,E,S, substation. Gerrard route was double tracked, with 80 lb. "T" rail. MAP OF THE TORONTO CIVIC RAILWAYS -TORONTO CIVIC RAILWAYS _TORONTO RAILWAY CO. TORONTO AND YORK RADIAL RY. TORONTO SUBURBAN RY. CITY LIMITS 3= ±\. CLAIR 3, J,„ t,'|RqUTE' IdAe Ontario i \ ' ''i ''i '% '^ S-I.VVE5TLAND JAN. 1950 Power was obtained from the East Toronto pumping station, The conatruotion material yard for the Danforth route was located I5OO feet east of the Main St. terminal, at Gerrard on the west aide of Coxwell Ave., between Hanaon Ave. and the St. and '.Vayland Ave. Grand Trunk Railway tracks. Although this property is now a ball park, it was uaed for many yeara by both the T.C.R. and Operation commenced on December 18, 1912. A aeven minute the Toronto Transportation Comraisaion. It wae here that the headway was maintained with four double truck cars. At first T.T.C.'a Witt typo care were unloaded from railway flatcara the cars were kept in a small shed near the east end of the when they arrived from the builders' plants. line, at Gerrard St. and Norwood Road. In 1915 a lin« was laid on Coxwell Ave. from Gerrard to Danforth, connecting the The route was built during 1912 and 1915, and was opened Gerrard and Danforth routea of the Civic Railway, and enabling for traffic on October 5C, 1915. The line was double track, the Gerrard cars to use the Denforth Carhouse upon ita com• paved with wood blocks. There waa no appreciable curvature pletion. or steep gradients. Aa a result of the construction of this Civic Railway route The Danforth carhouae, which served both the Danforth and the Toronto i York Radial Railway (Scarborough Division) stub Gerrard routes, was built on the property at the south-eaat line from Kingston Road to Gerrard and Main, via Walter and corner of Coxwell and Danforth Avea. The building was a six Kimberley Sta., was abandoned in 1915 as the Civic connection track, "L" shaped structure of brick and terra cotta on a afforded more convenient acceea to the East Toronto area, with Bteel framework, with accomodation for 12 oars. It also corresponding decline in revenue on the Radial Railway's short contained the T.C.R,'a atorea, motor shop and machine shop; route. theae were housed in a rear wing, part of which waa in two stories. It was opened about the middle of 1915; prior to that date, cars on the two routes were operated from Gerrard ST. CLAIR RCUTE carhouae or from Hanson yard. The St..Clair route ran from Yonge St. to Station St. (near Caledonia Road), a distance of 5.14 miles. At the time that In 192c Birney cara were introduced on a short Danforch the line was built, the City decided to widen St. Clair Ave., route from Broadview Ave. to Greenwood Ave., run in conjunc• since much of the property fronting on it wae still vacant, tion with the double-truck Preston built cara on the complete and the project could be carried out with comparative ease. route. Accordingly the road between Yonge Street and Avenue Road was widened to 86 ft., and between Avenue Road and Station St., BLOOR RCUTE to IC9 ft. Theae generous wi tha made it possible to build a double track trolley line on a 55 ft. boulevard in the When the conatruotion of the Bloor route was firat con- middle of the road. Aa the street was undulating in profile, aidered, the City Council intended to have this municipally much cut and fill work was required in building the car line, owned line operated by the Toronto Railway Company under particularly in croaaing two ravines. In places where the work agreement. Discuasion with the Company led to the conclusion wae heavy, a ateam shovel, dinky locomotive and dump cars that the route could be run less expensively by the Civic were used. Railway. Consequently the line waa planned as a self-contain• ed division of the Civic ayatem. To obtain space convenient to e railway line for a material yard during the construction, the City closed off a portion Construction started on Nov. 4, 1914 on a 0.745 mile of Station St. near the Grand Trunk's North Bay line. The yard temporary track as a single line on the north road allowance alao served aa an assembly point for the Civic street cars, of Bloor Street from Dundee St. to Quebec Ave. Various sizes many of which wore purchased piecemeal. The car bodiea, trucks of rail averaging 60 lb. ware used; a passing siding was motors and other equipment were delivered to the yard from the installed at Keele Street. The line was opened for service by various manufacturers' plants and assembled into complete cars the Mayor and other Civic officials on Feb. 25, 1915. The by the T.C.R.'s own staff. The yard was later used for a time rolling stock consisted of three single truck cars, two of in place of a carhouae while the building on Wychwood Ave. was which were uaed to provide the eight minute service. being completed. Between Dorvai aiid Indian Road.; there waa a small frame The St. Clair carhouae was located on the south-west corner carhouae with galvanized iron sheathing, constructed in of Wychwood Ave. and Benson St., two blocks south of St. Clair January, 1915. The building was a single pit structure, 85 x Ave. The original structure was a single bay, 5 track one, but 21 feet in overall dimension, with accoraodation for two cars. another identical bay was added in 1916. After acquisition by Power for the line was obtained from the substation at Edwin the Toronto Transportation Commission in 1921, a third bay wae and Ruskin Aves. added, together with an extensive yard and office facilities. A permanent double track line waa built during 1915 to The overhead on the boulevard right of way was suspended replace the'single treck temporary inatallation. Later, a from a aingle line of tubular steel poles with double bracket C.49 mile extension from Quebec Ave. to Runnymede Rd. was arms. The trolley wire waa OC hard-drawn copper, standard on undertaken. Original construction was temporary aingle track the T.C.R. Electrical energy was fed from the substation on with 56 lb, rail and waa commenced on Sept. 28, 1917. Service MacPherson Ave., near Avenue Road. cormmenced on this extension on November 12 of that year. Double tracking of the extenaion waa undertaken'in 1920. The St. Glair route waa placed in service on August 25, 1915. The line was noteworthy as the only long section of LANSDCWNE RCUTE boulevard right of way in the city.
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