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See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_Suburban_Railway
Where it states:
"Davenport
The Davenport route commenced service on 6 September 1892. From Keele and Dundas Streets (inThe Junctionneighbourhood), the route ran north onKeele Street, east on St. Clair Avenue, south on Ford Street, east onDavenport Roadand then south onBathurst Streetending north of theCPRnear today'sHillcrest Complex. This was a single-track line laid in the middle of the street with apassing sidingjust east of Lansdowne Avenue. From 1917, theToronto Civic Railway'sline on Lansdowne Avenue had a flat crossing with the Davenport line protected by interlocking signals. The Davenport line used express cars to transport milk from the west to dairies at the eastern end of the line.[3][18]
On 15 November 1923, the Toronto Transit Commission took over the Davenport line, then double-tracked the line and converted it to Toronto gauge. The TTC decided to abandon the TSR track on St. Clair Avenue and Ford Street and to build a new alignment west on Davenport Road from Ford Street, then north on Old Weston Road to the new Townsley Loop at Townsley Street. The former TSR route was split between the TTC Davenport route to Dovercourt Road, and the northern portion of the Dovercourt route to Bathurst Street.[20]
