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 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]

Since January 3, 2016, this route has operated using buses because the TTC does not have enough streetcars during peak hours. ^[3]

Sites along the line (from east to west)

• The Beaches
• Leslieville
• South Riverdale
• George Brown College
• Financial District

References

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Toronto Transit Commission Buses Blue Night Network Fleet Routes Wheel-Trans York University Busway Rapid transit  Yonge–University  Bloor–Danforth  Scarborough  Sheppard  Eglinton Rolling stock Stations Signals Streetcars 501 Queen 502 Downtowner 503 Kingston Rd 504 King 505 Dundas 506 Carlton 509 Harbourfront 510 Spadina 511 Bathurst 512 St. Clair 514 Cherry (2016) Cherry Street streetcar line Rolling stock Loops Facilities Arrow Road Bus Garage Birchmount Bus Garage Davisville Yard Eglinton Bus Garage Eglinton LRT Carhouse Greenwood Yard Hillcrest Complex Lakeshore Bus Garage Leslie Barns Malvern Bus Garage McCowan RT Yard Mount Dennis Bus Garage Queensway Bus Garage Roncesvalles Carhouse Russell Carhouse Toronto Coach Terminal Vincent Subway Yard Wilson Yard William McBrien Building Gray Coach History TTC incidents 1995 subway accident 2006 strike 2008 strike (Plans: Network 2011 Transit City The Big Move) 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) Miscellaneous Accessibility Fares Metrolinx Personnel Font Trackage Transit Enforcement Unit Approved expansions Toronto-York Spadina subway extension Scarborough subway extension Finch West Sheppard East Proposed expansions Crosstown East Crosstown West Relief Line East Bayfront Yonge extension Unbuilt or cancelled Don Mills Eglinton West Jane Queen Scarborough Malvern Waterfront West 507 Long Branch 508 Lake Shore 521 Exhibition East 522 Exhibition West Italics indicate a project under construction