Toronto Transit Trivia

[andomano]

Yeah, had to throw that one in there to make Kipling the less obvious answer.

finch is the most northerly, but Scarborough Centre and Don Mills aren't too far off

 

[ShonTron]

EDIT: Scratch that, confused city limits of today with those of 1920

There were four in 1920:

- Toronto Railway Company, which served the older parts of Toronto
- Toronto Civic Railway, which served areas that Toronto annexed since 1921 and which the TRC refused to expand service to - St. Clair, Gerrard, Danforth, Lansdowne North, Bloor West.
- Toronto Suburban Railway - a strange motley of local street railways on Davenport and the Junction area, and a rural radial to Weston and Woodbridge, and a high-speed interuban to Guelph.
- Toronto and York Railway (in 1920 owned by Ontario Hydro) - three radial railway routes to West Hill, Port Credit, and Sutton via Newmarket.

By 1927, this was down to two (TTC and Canadian National Electric Railways which took over what was left of the TSR), by 1930, just the TTC (though it operated services technically owned by the Township of York).

 

[ShonTron]

Here's a new question:

Besides the TTC, what other electric railways ran in what is now the Golden Horseshoe in 1927?

 

[Amphibius]

HSR- Hamilton Street Railway (technically a streetcar, but still it was electrified).

 

[ShonTron]

Yep, there's also a few more.

 

[Earlscourt_Lad]

The Niagara St. Catharines & Toronto springs to mind.

 

[ShonTron]

Very good. Two more. One was mentioned above, the other, well, think east.

 

[DavidH]

Very good. Two more. One was mentioned above, the other, well, think east.

Are you thinking of the Oshawa Railway Company?

 

[Railization]

Try and revive this one a little.

What subway station has straight tracks from end-to-end, but the tracks aren't parallel?

 

[DavidJamesTO]

Unless by parallel you mean using the same platform, I'm going to go with Spadina. You always have to do the ten mile hike to get from B-D to Y-U-S and vice-versa.

 

[JPG]

Sherbourne. The west end of the station is a little wider than the east end because tracks enter two tunnels at the west end. The tracks are almost parallel, but are actually off by a few degrees.

 

[Railization]

Sherbourne. The west end of the station is a little wider than the east end because tracks enter two tunnels at the west end. The tracks are almost parallel, but are actually off by a few degrees.

That's one of two. It's more pronounced at another station. The reason you gave is close but not quite right. It's still "two tunnels" on both sides.

 

[JPG]

At the west end, it's two tunnels. At the east end, it's cut and cover construction, no?

 

[Railization]

It is cut-and-cover, but it's still two tunnels (as in, there's still a structural wall between the two... single tunnel means one giant tunnel with two tracks in it, no wall between tracks). One being cut-and-cover is correct... complete this train of thought.

 

[JPG]

I don't want to start a war, but then again, I hate being corrected when there is no need. Tunnels are different than cut-and-cover or box structures...

http://stevemunro.ca/?p=780

The subway system is built in several different ways ranging from open cut running, convention box structures constructed in an excavation, and circular bored tunnels. Some of the tunnel is lined with cast iron rings, and some with pre-cast, reinforced concrete rings.

http://stevemunro.ca/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/tlmapc.jpg

With box structures, you dig once. Tunnels, you bore twice, and the width of the two tunnel structures is wider than one box structure.