508 Lake Shore

508 Lake Shore
Overview
Type	Streetcar Route
Locale	Toronto, Ontario
Termini	Long Branch Loop to Parliament St. (a.m.) Church St. to Long Branch Loop (p.m.)
Stations	St. Andrew King
Operation
Operator(s)	Toronto Transit Commission
Depot(s)	Roncesvalles [1]
Rolling stock	CLRV, ALRV
Technical
Line length	9.4 km (5.84 mi) [1]
Track gauge	4 ft 10 7⁄8 in (1,495 mm) - TTC Gauge
Electrification	600 VDC Overhead
Route number	508
Route map Legend Transfer stop Sunday-only stop Carhouse Route: Connection  00  Terminus  00  Long Branch GO Station Long Branch Loop  110A/110B   123B/123C   508  MiWay:  5/5B   23  ↓ Browns Line/39th Street ↑  110A   123B/C  37th Street Long Branch Avenue ↓ 31st Street/30th Street ↑ ↓ 28th Street/29th Street ↑ ↓ 27th Street/26th Street ↑ 22nd Street Kipling AvenueKipling Loop  44  15th Street 13th Street 10th Street Islington Avenue (7th Street)  110C  5th Street 3rd Street 1st Street Royal York Road  76A  Lake Crescent ↓ Miles Road/Symons Street ↑ Douglas Boulevard ↓ Norris Crescent/Hillside Avenue ↑ Summerhill Road Mimico Avenue  76A  Superior Avenue Burlington Street Louisa Street Legion Road ↓ Marine Parade Drive/Park Lawn Road ↑  66B   145  2155 Lake Shore Boulevard West 2095 Lake Shore Boulevard West Lake Shore Boulevard Private Right-of-Way Gardiner Expressway CN Oakville sub. Humber Loop  66A  The Queensway PRW The Queensway Humber River South Kingsway Windermere Avenue  77  Ellis Avenue Colborne Lodge Drive Parkside Drive  80A  Glendale Avenue Sunnyside Avenue Sunnyside Loop The Queensway Queen Street West Roncesvalles Carhouse Roncesvalles Avenue to Dundas West Station Roncesvalles Avenue  501   504  Queen Street West: 501 to downtown Queen Street West King Street Wilson Park Road Jameson Avenue Dunn Avenue Cowan Avenue Spencer Avenue Dufferin Street  29  Fraser Avenue Joe Shuster Way Atlantic Avenue CN Weston sub. & CP MacTier sub. Sudbury Street Shaw Street  63  Strachan Avenue  63  Niagara Street Tecumseth Street Bathurst Street511 to Exhibition & Bathurst Stn.  145   511  Portland Street Brant Street Spadina Avenue510 to Union Stn. & Spadina Stn.  510  ↓ Blue Jays Way/Peter Street ↑ John Street Simcoe Street St. Andrew Station  142  York Street Bay Street  6   6A  King Station  97B  Victoria Street Church Street Church Street King Street  521  Adelaide Street Richmond Street Queen Street East  501   502  Jarvis Street Sherbourne Street  75  Ontario Street Parliament Street  65  ↓ King Street  503   504

The 508 Lake Shore was an east-west streetcar route in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, operated by the Toronto Transit Commission from 1995 to 2015. The route served the downtown financial district from the western limit of the city, and operated as a weekday rush hour service only. The route shared much of its track with the 501 Queen and 504 King routes, following in the path of the 501 from the Long Branch Loop along Lake Shore Boulevard West and The Queensway as far as Roncesvalles Avenue, where it turned from Queen Street on to 504 King Street tracks. The route terminated at Parliament St in the morning, and originated at Church Street in the afternoon.^[2]

At the time of its cancellation, there were only three eastbound trips during the morning rush hour, and no service in the afternoon. Prior to January 2015 there were also four westbound trips in the afternoon rush hour.

Due to a shortage of streetcars caused by late Bombardier Flexity deliveries, the route ceased operations entirely after the morning rush on June 19, 2015. Streetcar service on Lake Shore Boulevard is now operated exclusively by the 501 Queen streetcar (since January 2016 the route has operated on a split service, Neville Park Loop - Humber Loop and Humber loop to Long Branch Loop) while service on King street is operated by the 504 King and (since June 2016) 514 Cherry streetcars. ^[3]

See also

• Toronto streetcar system
• Toronto Transit Commission

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 508 Lake Shore.

• Map of 508 Lake Shore
• Toronto Transit Commission homepage

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Predecessors	Williams Omnibus Bus Line (1849-1862) Toronto Street Railway (1861–1891) Toronto Railway Company (1891–1921) Toronto and York Radial Railway (1898–1922) Metropolitan Street Railway (1885-1897) Toronto Civic Railways (1912–1921) Hydro Electric Railways (1922-1927) Toronto Transportation Commission (1921-1953)
Facilities	Bus garages Davisville Yard Eglinton Maintenance and Storage Facility Greenwood Yard Hillcrest Complex Leslie Barns McCowan Yard Roncesvalles Carhouse Russell Carhouse Toronto Coach Terminal Vincent Yard William McBrien Building Wilson Yard
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