Hamilton Street Railway

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The Hamilton Street Railway (abbreviated as HSR) is the name of the organization which operates all public transit vehicles in the city of Hamilton, Ontario. HSR is owned by the City of Hamilton.

The name is a legacy of the days when the majority of public transit vehicles were streetcars; the present-day Hamilton Street Railway is in fact built around bus services.

HSR is connected with Burlington Transit to the east, as one route (11 Parkdale) travels into Burlington via Burlington Beach, and BT Route 1 enters downtown Hamilton from Plains Road West.

Hamilton GO Centre — is located at 36 Hunter Street East — and serves as the Western Terminus of GO Transit; Through the Lakeshore West (GO Transit) where trains serve the station at Peak Hours and connecting buses to/from Burlington (GO Station) on weekdays and Oakville (GO Station) on weekends. This is the former Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway (TH&B) passenger station, and there is a small museum above the public concourse.

This is the Hamilton bus terminal, with both Express Highway 407 and Queen Elizabeth Way GO Buses, and the main Greyhound Lines bus stop (mainly serving London, Ontario and those connections) in Hamilton. Canada Coach Lines, once owned by HSR, is now served by Coach Canada, formerly Trentway-Wagar, and operates routes between Kitchener-Waterloo, Guelph, and Niagara.

Via the Mountain Transit Centre transfer point and a contract with Blue Line Taxi, the HSR also connects with John C. Munro International Airport and other areas in the northwest portion of the former Glanbrook Township.

Fares

As of March 1, 2005, cash fare is $2.10. Different discounts are available to the following: children, students attending elementary/secondary school, and seniors (65 years of age and older). McMaster University students receive a bus pass from the McMaster Students Union during the terms they attend the university, which is paid for in their MSU fees.


HSR also once operated horsecar (1873-1892)and streetcar (1892-1949) lines (hence the name) as well as incline railways (Hamilton and Barton Incline Railway - Wentworth Incline 1895-1936, demolished 1949 and Hamilton Incline Railway - James Street Incline 1892-1932). Trolleybuses were also run on a few routes into the 1990s.

Roster

Buses

Horsecars

Streetcars

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See also: Hamilton Street Railway, 2005, Burlington (GO Station), Burlington Transit, Bus, Child, Coach Canada, GO Transit, General Motors Diesel Division Buses, Glanbrook Township, Ontario