05-21-2018, 10:32 AM
(05-21-2018, 09:32 AM)KevinL Wrote:(05-21-2018, 07:19 AM)Canard Wrote: ...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.