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		Metropolitan Railway
			
				1  Richmond Hill Photo Images: Car 71 of the 
					 Metropolitan
						Railway, southbound through 
					 Richmond Hill,
			
				2  Richmond Hill Photo Images: Boarding 
					 Metropolitan Car 56 at the 
					 Richmond
						Hill
			
				3  Richmond Hill Photo Images: Metropolitan
						Railway (later the 
					 Toronto and York Radial
			
				4  Richmond Hill Photo Images: Radial
					 railway station and entrance to the Park
			
				5  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  their grandchildren benefitted from the electric railway that shot up Yonge Street from 
			
				6  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  71 of the Metropolitan Railway, southbound through Richmond Hill, 
			
				7  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  Metropolitan brought instant change to Richmond Hill. 
			
				8  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  northern terminus for the burgeoning Metropolitan Railway. With favourable provincial legislation, support 
			
				9  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  for service beyond Richmond Hill, the Metropolitan Railway in 1899 built a new steam powerhouse at Bond 
			
				10  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  Lake, the mainline tracks of the Metropolitan were joined by the Schomberg and 
			
				11  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  old Metropolitan (Toronto and York) car barns at Bond Lake, 
			
				12  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  map of the Metropolitan Division of the Toronto and York Radial 
			
				13  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  546 metres (about 1800 feet). But the Metropolitan's cars took such grades with relative 
			
				14  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  the line. Up and down this line, the Metropolitan's big green cars glided along at average speeds 
			
				15  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  on the Metropolitan line at Yonge Street and Major Mackenzie 
			
				16  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  Metropolitan Car 56 at the Richmond Hill station, 
			
				17  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  station at Richmond Hill. The Metropolitan Railway had little time to enjoy its domination of 
			
				18  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  coaches [of the Metropolitan Railway] were painted a dark green, and looked very much 
			
				19  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  along the Yonge Street line of the Metropolitan Railway were numbered consecutively from Hogg's Hollow 
			
				20  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  is the summer of 1904. The Metropolitan Railway invites us to climb aboard a radial car at the 
			
				21  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  fine hotels, and large public halls, the Metropolitan Guide Book singles out the following 
			
				22  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  and villages along the line of the Metropolitan," the company brochure reminds us, "electricity 
			
				23  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  might the Metropolitan boast of its accomplishments. Statistics for 
			
				24  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  for their winter sport. Then in 1899, the Metropolitan Railway purchased the eighty-hectare (two-hundred-acre) 
			
				25  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  usual the Metropolitan Railway managers blundered during the two weeks of the 
			
				26  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  Metropolitan management has been improving the appearance 
			
				27  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  Metropolitan electric car brought hundreds of people 
			
				28  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  merrily up Yonge Street, the Metropolitan trolleys took dancers to Bond Lake. 
			
				29  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  of electric lighting in 1912. The Metropolitan Railway did not just bring Richmond Hill into 
			
				30  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  Street as far as the eye could see, the Metropolitan Railway offered its surplus electricity for lighting and 
			
				31  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  April 1897, the Metropolitan advertised its wares by turning on four 
			
				32  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  after the lights were turned on in the Metropolitan waiting room, did council express an interest 
			
				33  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  and York Radial Railway Company (the Metropolitan's successor) to discuss arrangements. The 
			
				34  Early Days in Richmond Hill: Radial railway station and entrance to the Park 
			
				35  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  the bright future promised by the Metropolitan radial railway and the Canadian Northern steam line. 
			
				36  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  farmers and shipping it to Toronto by radial railway, where it was used to make ice cream, but that was 
			
				37  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  Radial railway station
			
				38  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  to both Canadian Northern and radial railway shipping facilities, he planned to set up a 
			
				39  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  work on the radial railway line, October 1927. Toronto Transit Commission As 
			
				40  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  when Yonge Street's interurban electric railway reached Richmond Hill in 
			
				41  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  its location at the junction of the Metropolitan and Schomberg & Aurora electric railway 
			
				42  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  new transportation phenomenon - the electric railway. The electric railway and the  A 
								
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