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Toronto Civic Railways Danforth Carhouse on opening day.

The Danforth Carhouse was a streetcar maintenance and storage facility operated in Toronto, Canada, by first Toronto Civic Railways (TCR), and then by the Toronto Transportation Commission (TTC).^[1]^[2]^[3] The facility was opened in 1915, taken over by the TTC in 1921, and stopped servicing streetcars in 1966, when streetcar service on Bloor Street and Danforth Avenue was superceded by the TTC's new Bloor-Danforth Subway line.

The Toronto Railway Company (TRC) had an exclusive contract to run all the streetcars routes in Toronto. However, as Toronto annexed smaller nearby municipalities and unincorporated communities, like East Toronto, and Upper Midway, the TRC declined to build routes to the newly annexed regions, so the city created Toronto Civic Railways, which added streetcar route in 1913, which required the Danforth Carhouse to maintain its vehicles east of the Don Valley, prior to the completion fo the Prince Edward Viaduct, which connected Bloor and Danforth.

In 1967 the facility was converted to servicing buses.

References

^ "Toronto's Streetcar Network: Past to Present". Toronto Transit Commission. Archived from the original on 2013-04-26. Retrieved 2016-08-01. Streetcars need to be stored and maintained in specially equipped "carhouses" or "barns." Of the eight carhouses that have existed in Toronto, only two remain – the Roncesvalles and Russell Carhouses are still active after a century after opening.
^ Stephen Wickens (2015-04-23). "Photo guide for the Death and Life of Upper Midway Jane's Walk (Year 9)". Retrieved 2016-08-01. Danforth Carhouse on its opening day, Sept. 23, 1915. Nearly 1,000 TTC employees worked out of the facility at its peak. It was converted to a bus garage in 1967.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ Derek Flack (2012-11-12). "What Danforth Avenue used to look like in Toronto". Blog TO. Retrieved 2016-08-01. Aside from an area of density around Broadview and the presence of Toronto Civic Railway cars from 1913 onward, the Danforth was a mostly lazy stretch of road that wouldn't see major development until the 1920s, following the completion of the Bloor Viaduct in 1918.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

External links

Media related to Danforth Carhouse at Wikimedia Commons

[TtcStreetcarNetwork-1] "Toronto's Streetcar Network: Past to Present". Toronto Transit Commission. Archived from the original on 2013-04-26. Retrieved 2016-08-01. Streetcars need to be stored and maintained in specially equipped "carhouses" or "barns." Of the eight carhouses that have existed in Toronto, only two remain – the Roncesvalles and Russell Carhouses are still active after a century after opening.

[Wickens-2] Stephen Wickens (2015-04-23). "Photo guide for the Death and Life of Upper Midway Jane's Walk (Year 9)". Retrieved 2016-08-01. Danforth Carhouse on its opening day, Sept. 23, 1915. Nearly 1,000 TTC employees worked out of the facility at its peak. It was converted to a bus garage in 1967.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[BlogTO2012-11-3] Derek Flack (2012-11-12). "What Danforth Avenue used to look like in Toronto". Blog TO. Retrieved 2016-08-01. Aside from an area of density around Broadview and the presence of Toronto Civic Railway cars from 1913 onward, the Danforth was a mostly lazy stretch of road that wouldn't see major development until the 1920s, following the completion of the Bloor Viaduct in 1918.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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