503 Kingston Rd

503 Kingston Rd

A 503 Kingston Rd car proceeds east along
King Street, bound for Victoria Park Avenue
Overview
Type Streetcar Route
Locale Toronto, Ontario
Termini Bingham Loop (East)
Downtown street loop (West)
Stations King
Operation
Operator(s) Toronto Transit Commission
Depot(s) Russell[1]
Rolling stock CLRV
Technical
Line length 8.97 km (5.57 mi) [1]
Track gauge 4 ft 10 7⁄8 in (1,495 mm) - TTC Gauge
Electrification 600 VDC Overhead
Route number 503
Route map
Legend
Legend
 Transfer stop
 Sunday-only stop
 Carhouse
 Route:Connection  00  Terminus  00 

York Street
Union Station  6   6A 
King Station  97B 
Victoria Street

Church Street
 Jarvis Street
 Sherbourne Street  75 
 Ontario Street
 Parliament Street  65 
 Trinity Street
 Sackville Street
 Sumach Street

501 & 502 to downtown
King Street East
 River Street  501   502 

CN Kingston sub.

CP Bala sub.
Don River
Don Valley Parkway
 Carroll Street
Broadview Avenue  504 
 ↓ Saulter Street/Boulton Avenue ↑
CN Lakeshore sub.
 Empire Avenue
↓ Booth Avenue
 Logan Avenue
 Carlaw Avenue  72 
 Pape Avenue  72 
 ↓ Caroline Avenue/Brooklyn Avenue ↑
 Jones Avenue  83 
 Leslie Street
 ↓ Laing Street/Alton Avenue ↑
 Greenwood Avenue  31 
Russell Carhouse
Connaught Avenue
 ↓ Woodward Avenue/Kent Road ↑
 Coxwell Avenue  22 
 ↓ Eastern Avenue/Queen Street ↑  22B   501 
Woodbine Loop
501 to Neville
 ↓ Dixon Avenue/Dundas Street East ↑
 Columbine Avenue
 Rainsford Road
 Woodbine Avenue  92 
 Elmer Avenue
 ↓ Waverly Road/Brookside Drive ↑
 Lee Avenue
 Main Street (Southwood Drive)  64 
 Walter Street
 Glen Manor Drive
 St. John Church
 Malvern Avenue
 Beech Avenue
 Scarborough Road
 Bingham Avenue
 Victoria Park Avenue
 Bingham Loop  12   22A   502 

The 503 Kingston Rd is an east-west streetcar route in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, operated by the Toronto Transit Commission. The 503 Kingston Rd travels on a route to the downtown financial district from the Bingham Loop and operates in the rush hour only with a 12-minute service frequency. The route shares much of its track with the 504 King and the 502 Downtowner.

Route

Starting at the Bingham Loop on Victoria Park Avenue, the 503 runs southwest on Kingston Road then turns west along Queen Street. At the bridge over the Don River, it then turns southwest going along King Street and continues west to Church Street. It then goes south again to Wellington Street where it continues west to York Street. It then turns north and returns east along King Street, Queen Street and Kingston Road.

The Kingston Road line only travels over a short section of Kingston Road and does not extend into Scarborough, but used to extend as far as the Birchmount Loop, on Birchmount Road.[2]

Due to a shortage of streetcars caused by late delivery of the new wheelchair accessible Flexity Outlook streetcars, as of October 2016, the route has been operated using supplementary buses rather than streetcars. [3]

Sites along the line (from east to west)

References

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  1. 1 2 Toronto Transit Commission (September 18, 2009). "TTC Service Summary" (PDF).
  2. ↑ James Bow (2013-08-24). "Remembering Birchmount Loop". Transit Toronto. Archived from the original on 2013-09-21. Retrieved 2014-02-18. The easternmost streetcar loop in the TTC's history is Birchmount Loop, located at the Kingston Road / Birchmount Avenue intersection inside the old City of Scarborough.
  3. ↑ 503 Kingston Road - Temporary bus operation


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