H (Los Angeles Railway)

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Overview
Locale	Los Angeles
Service
Type	Streetcar
System	Los Angeles Railway
Daily ridership	14,484 (1940)
History
Opened	1912
Closed	August 3, 1947
Technical
Track gauge	3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)
Electrification	600 V DC overhead line
Route map
	Legend
1925–1947
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H was a streetcar route in Los Angeles, California. It was owned and operated by the Los Angeles Railway from 1912 to 1947.

History[]

The route's origins begin when the streetcar lines running on Washington Street and Maple Avenue were combined into a single service in 1912, running through Downtown. During the 1920 lettering scheme, the Washington Street line was spun into the W West Washington and Garvanza Line.^[2] Thus, the H line consisted of tracks on Melrose; Heliotrope; Temple; New Hampshire; First; Bimini Place; a private right of way; 2nd; Rampart; 6th; Alvarado; 7th; Maple; Woodlawn; Santa Barbara; Wall; and 53rd.^[3] The Maple segment became the south end of the H line, which ran to Melrose to Normandie in Melrose Hill. The western end was rerouted via Vermont and Beverly in 1924 and extended to Melrose and Western the following year. This routing pattern held until August 3, 1947 when service was discontinued.^[2]

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.
^ ^a ^b "'H'". Electric Railway Historical Association of Southern California. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is 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.

External links[]

"Los Angeles Railway". Electric Railway Historical Association of Southern California.
H 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.

[erha-2] "'H'". Electric Railway Historical Association of Southern California. Retrieved 22 January 2021.

[3] One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is 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.

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