Cycling Outside Waterloo Region

[ijmorlan]

...parked at Andrew Haydon Park.

Hey, that's my brother's neighbourhood!

Of note: the trail from there, to where it meets the Parkway, is a defunct streetcar line. Britannia Bay was founded as a 'streetcar suburb'.

Actually the right of way used by the trail is a former heavy rail line. On Google Satellite you can follow the right-of-way to the southwest where it meets up with a still-extant railway line; to the east it used to follow the path of the transitway immediately north of Scott St. until it met up with the line now used by the O-train.

The defunct streetcar line right-of-way is the linear park immediately north of Byron Ave. from Holland Ave. west to where Byron ends at Richmond Rd., then continuing over to Britannia Park where there is a commemorative station structure.

https://goo.gl/maps/ihPDExtwit92

At this point the streetcar route was right next to the mainline railway, but distinct.