The Galt, Preston and Hespeler Street Railway (GP&H) was an

interurban The Interurban (or radial railway in Europe and Canada) is a type of electric railway, with streetcar-like electric self-propelled rail cars which run within and between cities or towns. They were very prevalent in North America between 1900 ...

electric Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter that has a property of electric charge. Electricity is related to magnetism, both being part of the phenomenon of electromagnetism, as described by ...

street railway connecting the three nearby communities of

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, Preston, and later Hespeler in

Waterloo County Waterloo County was a county in the Canadian province of Ontario from 1853 until 1973. It was the direct predecessor of the Regional Municipality of Waterloo. Situated on a subset of land within the Haldimand Tract, the traditional territory of ...

(now

Waterloo Region The Regional Municipality of Waterloo (Waterloo Region or Region of Waterloo) is a metropolitan area of Southern Ontario, Canada. It contains the cities of Cambridge, Kitchener and Waterloo (KWC or Tri-Cities), and the townships of North Dumfr ...

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, Canada. The firm was organized in 1890, and began operation in 1894. In 1908 it merged with the

Preston and Berlin Street Railway The Preston and Berlin Street Railway (or Preston and Berlin Electric Street Railway) was an interurban electric street railway which served the between what was then the towns of Preston (now part of Cambridge) and Berlin (renamed Kitchener ...

, with the new entity called the Berlin, Waterloo, Wellesley, and Lake Huron Railway Company. In 1911, the line reached Hespeler, Berlin (later called Kitchener) and Waterloo. In 1914, the company was incorporated as the

Grand River Railway The Grand River Railway was an interurban electric railway (known as a radial in Ontario) in what is now the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, in Southwestern Ontario. History Background Preston and Berlin Railway Starting in the 185 ...

. By 1916, the line was extended to Brantford/Port Dover.

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* Predecessors of the Grand River Railway Rail transport in Cambridge, Ontario Passenger rail transport in Cambridge, Ontario History of Cambridge, Ontario History of rail transport in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo Defunct Ontario railways Electric railways in Canada Railway companies established in 1890 Railway companies disestablished in 1908 Standard gauge railways in Canada {{DEFAULTSORT:Galt Preston and Hespeler Street Railway

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