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The GTR & James South route
Start of service: Circa 1900 Around 1900, the GTR & James South route was created to form a one-way clockwise loop via James, Herkimer, Locke, Main, Margaret and King, then reaching the second Stuart St station at Stuart & Caroline via James North and Stuart. Service in the other direction of the Herkimer-Locke-King-James loop was provided by the James North & King West route The GTR & James South route lasted until 1913, when the opening of streetcar service along Burlington St resulted in the creation of the Burlington-James South route. The only portion of the former GTR & James South route not travelled by the Burlington-James South route was Stuart street, which would become part of the Wentworth-Stuart route ![]() HSR 39 at Stuart St & Caroline circa 1900. (Photo courtesy of the Hamilton Public Library, Local History & Archives) ![]() HSR 62 at Stuart St & Caroline, circa 1900. (The building on the right is the west end of the Grand Trunk Railway's Stuart St station). (Photo courtesy of the Hamilton Public Library, Local History & Archives) ![]() HSR 106 heading south on James St South near Young on the 'GTR & James South' route in 1912. (Photo courtesy of the Hamilton Public Library, Local History & Archives, used with permission) Sources Mills, John M. Cataract Traction; The Railways of Hamilton. Toronto: Upper Canada Railway Society/Ontario Electric Railway Historical Association, 1971 | ||