Toronto Transit Trivia

[ShonTron]

An amazing document about the start-up and first few years of the system (which was Hamilton-Pickering only with bus connections)

http://historicaltextarchive.com/books.php?op=viewbook&bookid=63

Only one train (the "best" train) stopped in Lorne Park, and that was forced by the well-heeled residents of the area that didn't want to have to go to Port Credit and Clarkson. It was removed two years later. Lorne Park never had the parking space and not in as good a location as off Southdown. People adjusted.

 

[andomano]

Don Mills
York Mills
Lawrence
St. Clair West

Is York Mills truly underground or is it just in a building?

 

[CDL.TO]

Is York Mills truly underground or is it just in a building?

I'm not sure. I think it's underground, I seem to recall buses using a up ramp to get out of the terminal. But I could be mistaken.

 

[RedRocket191]

I'm not sure. I think it's underground, I seem to recall buses using a up ramp to get out of the terminal. But I could be mistaken.

It is below grade. Buses do use a ramp to enter and exit the terminal.

 

[Dan416]

An amazing document about the start-up and first few years of the system (which was Hamilton-Pickering only with bus connections)

http://historicaltextarchive.com/books.php?op=viewbook&bookid=63

Only one train (the "best" train) stopped in Lorne Park, and that was forced by the well-heeled residents of the area that didn't want to have to go to Port Credit and Clarkson. It was removed two years later. Lorne Park never had the parking space and not in as good a location as off Southdown. People adjusted.

Interesting that GO's bilevels were designed by a Polak

 

[ShonTron]

Name all the electric railway companies that operated within the current Toronto City limits in 1920.

 

[Railization]

Name all the electric railway companies that operated within the current Toronto City limits in 1920.

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

 

[andomano]

Where is this? This one may be a little hard!

 

[CDL.TO]

Kennedy, before they built the overpass.
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[andomano]

Well, Eglinton, but close enough!

 

[CDL.TO]

Well, Eglinton, but close enough!

Ha ha. Yeah, I meant Kennedy station, not Kennedy Road.

 

[andomano]

In the 1940s, when the subway was first being designed, what was originally supposed to be the most Northerly station?

 

[andomano]

Also, what is the TTC's current most Northerly and Southerly subway stations?

 

[Railization]

Also, what is the TTC's current most Northerly and Southerly subway stations?

Northern is Finch, not very hard.

Southern is... Kipling.

 

[Railization]

In the 1940s, when the subway was first being designed, what was originally supposed to be the most Northerly station?

St.Clair