B (Los Angeles Railway)

B
B
Overview
Locale	Los Angeles
Service
Type	Streetcar
System	Los Angeles Railway
Daily ridership	13,185 (1940)
History
Opened	1920
Closed	January 30, 1949
Technical
Track gauge	3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)
Electrification	600 V DC overhead line
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The B was a streetcar line in Los Angeles, California. It was operated by the Los Angeles Railway from 1920 to 1949, originally running from Ramona Boulevard and Miller Street in East Los Angeles to Ascot Avenue and 51st Street.

History[]

Brooklyn and Ascot Lines (1895–1911)[]

The first Brooklyn line was built in 1895 by the Los Angeles Consolidated Railway as a horsecar road. It terminated at the intersection of Brooklyn Avenue and Evergreen Avenue. The line was electrified the following year and rerouted downtown. In 1902 the route was bought by the Pacific Electric Railway to be standard gauged, but never was.^{[citation needed]} In 1908, the Brooklyn Avenue Line ran from Arcade Depot to Evergreen Cemetery via 5th Street, Main Street, Macy, Pleasant Avenue, Bridge, and Brooklyn Avenue.^[2]

Following the Great Merger of 1911, control of the route returned to the Los Angeles Railway. They extended the route north and east along Evergreen and Wabash Avenues to the city limits in 1915.^[3]

Expansion and later removal (1911–1949)[]

The line was given the designation B and rerouted in 1920. Tracks on 9th Street were taken over by the N Line and the remaining service was merged with the Ascot Line, a previously unconnected route which ran by way of Main Street, 12th Street, Hooper Avenue, a private right-of-way alongside the Santa Monica Air Line, and Ascot Avenue.^[4]^[3] (A section of this, between Adams Boulevard and 41st Street, has since been filled in.)^{[citation needed]}

In 1922, the route was extended northeast along the newly built Harrison Street (later Ramona Boulevard, and later still City Terrace Drive) to Miller Street in East Los Angeles.^[5] In 1949 the route was removed altogether, replaced by trolley bus service.^[3]

Sources[]

^ Breivogel, Milton; Bate, Stuart (1942). Mass Transiit Facilities and Master Plan of Parkways (PDF) (Report). Los Angeles City Planning Commission. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
^ Wood, J. Henry (1907). Security Map And Street Railway Guide of the City of Los Angeles and Vicinity with Map of Beaches and nearby Points of Interest (Map). Los Angeles, California: Security Savings Bank. Retrieved 4 September 2021 – via David Rumsey Historical Map Collection.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "'B'". Electric Railway Historical Association of Southern California. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
^ ‹The template Citation-attribution is being considered for deletion.› One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a work now in the public domain: Terrass, John (1922). Study and Plan of Relief of the Street Traffic Congestion in the City of Los Angeles, California (PDF) (Thesis). University of California. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
^ H.P. Noordwal (1938). "Route Map Los Angeles Railway Electric Car and Bus Routes" (Map). Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc. Los Angeles Railway. "Alternate link" (Map). via Google.

External links[]

"Los Angeles Railway". Electric Railway Historical Association of Southern California.
B Line Archives — Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society

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[1] Breivogel, Milton; Bate, Stuart (1942). Mass Transiit Facilities and Master Plan of Parkways (PDF) (Report). Los Angeles City Planning Commission. Retrieved 29 January 2021.

[SecurityBank-2] Wood, J. Henry (1907). Security Map And Street Railway Guide of the City of Los Angeles and Vicinity with Map of Beaches and nearby Points of Interest (Map). Los Angeles, California: Security Savings Bank. Retrieved 4 September 2021 – via David Rumsey Historical Map Collection.

[erha-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "'B'". Electric Railway Historical Association of Southern California. Retrieved 19 September 2020.

[4] ‹The template Citation-attribution is being considered for deletion.› One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a work now in the public domain: Terrass, John (1922). Study and Plan of Relief of the Street Traffic Congestion in the City of Los Angeles, California (PDF) (Thesis). University of California. Retrieved 29 January 2021.

[5] H.P. Noordwal (1938). "Route Map Los Angeles Railway Electric Car and Bus Routes" (Map). Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc. Los Angeles Railway. "Alternate link" (Map). via Google.

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