User:Geo Swan/Danforth Carhouse

The Danforth Carhouse was a streetcar maintenance and storage facility operated in Toronto, Canada, by first Toronto Civic Railways (TCR), and then by the Toronto Transportation Commission (TTC). The facility was opened in 1915, taken over by the TTC in 1921, and stopped servicing streetcars in 1966, when streetcar service on Bloor Street and Danforth Avenue was superceded by the TTC's new Bloor-Danforth Subway line.

The Toronto Railway Company (TRC) had an exclusive contract to run all the streetcars routes in Toronto. However, as Toronto annexed smaller nearby municipalities and unincorporated communities, like East Toronto, and Upper Midway, the TRC declined to build routes to the newly annexed regions, so the city created Toronto Civic Railways, which added streetcar route in 1913, which required the Danforth Carhouse to maintain its vehicles east of the Don Valley, prior to the completion fo the Prince Edward Viaduct, which connected Bloor and Danforth.

In 1967 the facility was converted to servicing buses.