RemnantsoftheTorontoSuburbanRailway

The Toronto Suburban Railway was a street railway company that operated in and around Toronto in the first decades of the 20th century. In addition to local streetcar lines, the company built an electric passenger or "radial" railway than ran from 1917 to 1931 between West Toronto and Guelph. This short walk will focus on two Toronto Suburban lines near the east bank of the Humber River, in the Lambton neighbourhood. We will walk along the path of the abandoned railway, and we will look for signs of the line still visible many decades later. We will have old photos for "then and now" comparisons. Although long gone and mostly forgotten, old railways can leave their mark on the urban form for many years afterwards.