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The Galt, Preston and Hespeler Street Railway (GP&H) was an
interurban The interurban (or radial railway in Canada) is a type of electric railway, with tram-like electric self-propelled railcars which run within and between cities or towns. The term "interurban" is usually used in North America, with other terms u ...
electric Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter possessing an electric charge. Electricity is related to magnetism, both being part of the phenomenon of electromagnetism, as described by Maxwel ...
street railway A tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in Canada and the United States) is an urban rail transit in which Rolling stock, vehicles, whether individual railcars or multiple-unit trains, run on tramway tracks on urban public streets; some ...
connecting the three nearby communities of Galt, Preston, and later Hespeler in
Waterloo County Waterloo County was a county in Canada West in the United Province of Canada from 1853 until 1867, then in the Canadian province of Ontario from 1867 until 1973. It was the direct predecessor of the Regional Municipality of Waterloo. Situated on ...
(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 Dumfri ...
),
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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 railway, electric street railway which served the between what was then the towns of Preston, Ontario, Preston (now part of Cambr ...
, 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, Canada. History Background Preston and Berlin Railway Starting in ...
. By 1916, the line was extended to Brantford/Port Dover.


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Preston and Berlin Street Railway The Preston and Berlin Street Railway (or Preston and Berlin Electric Street Railway) was an interurban electric railway, electric street railway which served the between what was then the towns of Preston, Ontario, Preston (now part of Cambr ...
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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, Canada. History Background Preston and Berlin Railway Starting in ...
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Galt Subdivision Canadian Pacific Kansas City's Galt Subdivision is CPKC's 114.6 mile long section of its Montréal-Detroit freight corridor. It is located in Southern Ontario, Canada. Getting its name from the historic City of Galt (now the City of Cambrid ...
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Kitchener and Waterloo Street Railway The Kitchener and Waterloo Street Railway was a street railway in Berlin (renamed Kitchener) and Waterloo in Waterloo County, Ontario, Canada. Horsecar service began in 1888 under the original Berlin and Waterloo Street Railway name and contin ...
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List of street railways in Canada This is a list of street railways in Canada by Provinces and territories of Canada, province. Prince Edward Island, Northwest Territories and Nunavut are the only places in Canada to not have had any tram (streetcar) system. The list includes all ...
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List of Ontario railways The following railways operate in the Canadian province of Ontario. Common freight carriers *Barrie Collingwood Railway (BCRY) *Canadian National Railway (CN) including subsidiaries Algoma Central Railway (AC), Grand Trunk Western Railroad (GTW) ...
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List of defunct Canadian railways Most transportation historians date the history of Canada's railways as beginning on February 25, 1832, with the incorporation of British North America's first steam-powered railway, the Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad (C&SL). This line opened ...


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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