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