Runnymede Road
Laying streetcar tracks on Runnymede Road (looking south from St.Clair)
to reach the planned
Britannia Division car barn north of St.Clair Avenue West, mostly east
of Runnymede.
Looking north from the Runnymede bridge showing never-used TTC tracks.
Note TTC Runnymede bus and
the jog to bring street into York Township since the City of Toronto
would not pay for it! Yard office at left, out of view.
Toronto Public Library/Salmon Collection
Looking north on Runnymede, showing TTC track curving
into the loop and unconnected tracks going under subway towards St.Clair
to reach a planned car barn off Britannia Avenue which was never built.
However, a government inspector refused to approve its use since an
imobile streetcar would block emergency vehicles. These tracks were
visible for decades, then paved over and finally removed during construction
of the new underpass in 1982. The building at right was once a coal
dealer, later a welder's supply. Next to it, out of sight, was once
the terminal of Star Transfer, Ontario Northland's truck transport operation.
Nearby, just north of the locomotive foreman's office was a small garage
for Thibodeau Express, the highway transport arm of Algoma Central.
Hume's Transport a local family business had its main terminal on St.Clair
across from the roundhouse as well. Toronto Public Library/Salmon
Collection
