Toronto and Scarboro' Electric Railway, Light and Power Company was established in August 1892 to provide street railway service to the Upper Beaches district within the City of Toronto, Ontario and to the neighbouring Township of Scarborough.
[1] In early July 1893, the railway created a branch for summer service on the west side of Blantyre Avenue south to Victoria Park, a lakeside recreation area[1][2] roughly at the location of today's R.C.
[4] During the winters of 1895 and 1896, the Blantyre branch did not operate and all radial cars proceeded to East York at Gerrard and Main streets.
[5] The Walter Avenue carhouse was reopened, and operation of the Scarboro line became completely separate from the TRC system.
[5] On August 31, 1906, service reached West Hill (near today's Fairwood Crescent[2]) where a station was built.
[3] Hydro transferred new cars from its Guelph Radial Railway operation, and constructed a new terminus at Kingston Road and Victoria Park Avenue.
City streetcars now replaced the radial cars along Kingston Road from Queen Street to Victoria Park Avenue.
On January 25, the TTC connected Scarboro radial tracks to the city system at the Bingham Loop.
[10] On July 4, 1927, the five standard-gauge cars that had been stored at the Warden Carhouse were put into service on the Scarboro line after regauging and conversion to one-man operation.
The introduction of a new fare zone system and a reorganization of the suburban bus network led to the termination of streetcar service east of Victoria Park Avenue.
In 1922, the TTC took over the radial route between Queen Street and Victoria Park and converted it into a double-track streetcar line.
The Scarboro radial line ended on the east side of Victoria Park Avenue.
The TTC then connected this terminal track to the Bingham Loop so that radial cars could pass through it to be stored at Russell Carhouse.