According to Hilton & Due, this was the last radial (interurban) railway constructed in the Hamilton area and the only one built to a high standard.

It then climbed the escarpment on a 2.5 percent grade,[2] that was 11 kilometres (7 mi) long and elevated the line by 150 metres (500 ft).

To avoid this problem, B&H cars were often parked outside of the station structure, which was a two-storey building with a single track passing through it on the ground floor.

After building a crossing with the Tillsonburg branch of the Grand Truck Railway (GTR), the line was extended to Market Street on November 3, 1908.

[3] On October 18, 1925, the B&H was interlined with the Hamilton Radial Electric Railway (HRER) so that trains ran from Burlington through to Brantford.

[3] Dominion Power wished to sell its bus operations, but a condition of sale was that the remaining Hamilton radial lines be shut down.

On February 2, 1932, an interurban car made one additional non-revenue run to collect portable equipment from substations along the line.

[2] Much of the route of the Brantford-Hamilton Electric Railway from Dundas ran parallel to the present-day Highway 403, also known as the Chedoke Expressway.

The section east of Highway 403 is now operated by the City of Hamilton as the Chedoke Radial Trail, a 2.7-kilometre (1.7 mi) pedestrian and bicycle pathway.

[4] The path of the former railway track is lost at the Highway 403 interchange at Mohawk Road, but can be picked up again as the Radial Right of Way Ancaster at the west end of Hiawatha Boulevard.