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The Birchmount Loop was the easternmost loop of the Toronto streetcar system, operated by the Toronto Transit Commission.[1] It was located at the intersection of Kingston Road and Birchmount Road in the township of Scarborough, Ontario.[2] Scarboro radial line, originally a privately operated line, continued farther east until 1936.[1]
When the TTC was created in 1921 it started to build streetcar service farther east.[2] They first extended double track TTC service to the current Bingham Loop, at Victoria Park Avenue, in 1922 replacing a portion of the Scarboro radial.[1]
The TTC stopped running Kingston Road streetcars as far as the Birchmount Loop in 1954[3] after the introduction of a new fare zone system and a reorganization of the suburban bus network.[1] The streetcar route was transferred to Scarborough bus route, 86 Scarboro and now as 12 Kingston Road. The site of the old loop on the southeast corner is now occupied by a series of homes.
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.
The line was started as a private enterprise and was later taken over by the TTC in 1921. They began to convert it to a proper streetcar line first by doubling the track along Kingston Road to Walter Ave in the upper-beaches area, just east of Main Street, the next year it was doubled to Victoria park where the Bingham loop is currently. By 1923 the line went through Cliffside to Birchmount Road and there built a loop for the streetcar.
The streetcars replaced the old radial cars that starting running through Birch Cliff in about 1901. Streetcars continued operating to Birchmount until 1954.
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