At this point, the HRER left the tracks it shared with the Hamilton Street Railway.

[1]: 58 The HRER had carload freight operations along Hamilton Harbour and to a lesser extent in Burlington, where there was a branch line south on John Street serving two canneries.

The City of Hamilton would not permit the HRER to run freight cars along Sanford Avenue and King Street; combines with passenger seating were permitted on these streets but express cars for freight only were not.

[1]: 47, 55, 57 The Hamilton Radial Electric Railway received its provincial charter on March 24, 1893.

In August, 1896 two carhouses were built, one at Gore & Mary Streets in Hamilton, and a second on Burlington Beach beside the HRER powerhouse.

This allowed the HRER to increase service and the HSR to serve riders at waterfront industries.

[2] On March 3, 1906, service was extended east to Randall and Thomas Streets in Oakville.

The HRER hoped that the Toronto and York Radial Railway would extend its Mimico line west from Port Credit to Oakville, but this never came to pass.

In May 1924, the HRER tracks on Birch Avenue in Hamilton were moved to a new private right of way on the west side of Birch Ave.[2] On August 3, 1925, the HRER line between Oakville and Port Nelson (at today's Guelph Line) was abandoned.

[1]: 57 The HRER's Oakville Station still exists at the southeast corner of Randall and Thomas Streets.