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 number	503
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]

Due to a shortage of streetcars caused by late delivery of the new wheelchair accessible Flexity Outlook streetcars, as of October 2016, the route has been operated using supplementary buses rather than streetcars. ^[3]

Sites along the line (from east to west)

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

References

1. Toronto Transit Commission (September 18, 2009). "TTC Service Summary" (PDF).
2. James Bow (2013-08-24). "Remembering Birchmount Loop". Transit Toronto. Archived from the original on 2013-09-21. Retrieved 2014-02-18. The easternmost streetcar loop in the TTC's history is Birchmount Loop, located at the Kingston Road / Birchmount Avenue intersection inside the old City of Scarborough.
3. 503 Kingston Road - Temporary bus operation