Birchmount loop
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The Toronto Transit Commission's Birchmount Loop marked the TTC's easternmost extension of its streetcar system.[1] When it was built the city's eastern boundary ended at Victoria Park Avenue, and extending the Kingston Road streetcar east to Birchmount Road took it deep into the Borough of Scarborough, Ontario. However, the privately operated Toronto and Scarboro' Electric Railway, Light and Power Company continued farther east just east of Morningside Road.[2]
When the TTC was created in 1921 it started build service farther east.[2] They first extended double track TTC service to the current Bingham Loop, at Victoria Park Avenue, in 1922.
The TTC stopped running Kingston Road streetcars as far as the Birchmount Loop in 1954.[3]
References
- ↑ James Bow (2013-08-24). Remembering Birchmount Loop. Transit Toronto. Archived from the original on 2013-09-21. Retrieved on 2014-02-18. “The easternmost streetcar loop in the TTC's history is Birchmount Loop, located at the Kingston Road / Birchmount Avenue intersection inside the old City of Scarborough.”
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Birchmount Loop, Scarborough Life, 2012-12-08. Retrieved on 2014-02-23. “The line was started as a private enterprize and was later taken over by the TTC in 1921. They began to convert it to a proper streetcar line first by doubling the track along Kingston Road to Walter Ave in the upper-beaches area, just east of Main Street, the next year it was doubled to Victoria park where the Bingham loop is currently. By 1923 the line went through Cliffside to Birchmount road and there built a loop for the streetcar.”
- ↑ Photo of the Day Aug. 22, 2012, Birch Cliff News, 1928. Retrieved on 2014-02-23. “The streetcars replaced the old radial cars that starting running through Birch Cliff in about 1901. Streetcars continued operating to Birchmount until 1954.”