Toronto Railway Company

E31996

The Toronto Railway Company was a private streetcar operator that ran Toronto’s electric tram system in the late 19th and early 20th centuries before public transit was municipalized.

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Toronto Street Railway 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf defunct company
public transport company
streetcar operator
country Canada
fareSystem urban streetcar fares
headquartersLocation Toronto
industry public transportation
rail transport
locatedInTimePeriod early 20th century
late 19th century
modeOfTransport streetcar
tram
municipalizationOutcome operations taken over by public authority
operatedBy private sector
operatedInCity Toronto
operatedInCountry Canada
operatedInfrastructure electric tram lines in Toronto
streetcar tracks in Toronto
operatedInProvinceOrState Ontario
operatedSystem Toronto streetcar system
Toronto streetcar system
surface form: Toronto tramway network
ownership private company
powered electric streetcars
precededBy Toronto Railway Company self-linksurface differs
surface form: Toronto Street Railway
primaryServiceArea Toronto
surface form: City of Toronto
publicTransitRole major provider of transit in Toronto
replaced horse-drawn streetcars in Toronto
serviceType public transport
urban transit
succeededBy Toronto Transit Commission
Toronto Transit Commission
surface form: Toronto Transportation Commission
tractionType electric
transitionedTo municipal public transit system in Toronto
transportMode light rail

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Toronto Railway Company precededBy Toronto Railway Company self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Toronto Street Railway
Toronto Transit Commission precededBy Toronto Railway Company