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The Temple Street Cable Railway began service on July 14, 1886. It was bought by and merged into the Pacific Electric Railway, which replaced the cable cars with electric streetcar service on October 2, 1902. The route was transferred to the Los Angeles Railway in 1910. Service on the last remaining portion of the route was discontinued in 1946.
Beach and Mason station is about 0.2 miles (0.32 km) from the terminus of the Powell–Mason cable car. The stop is also served by the route 47 bus, plus the L Owl bus route, which provides service along the F Market & Wharves and L Taraval lines during the late night hours when trains do not operate.
Both the single-ended cars on the Powell–Hyde and Powell–Mason lines, and the double-ended cars on the California Street line, are of this type. The single-ended cars have a single open section at the front of the car, with a closed compartment at the rear, whilst the double-ended cars have a central closed compartment flanked by open areas ...
Muni cable car lines; Route Inbound terminal Outbound terminal Ridership [3] California (C) California and Market: California and Van Ness: 4,000 Powell-Hyde (PH) Powell and Market: Hyde and Beach: 7,800 Powell-Mason (PM) Taylor and Bay: 5,100
Cable car on Broadway just north of 2nd Street looking south, Los Angeles, c. 1893–1895 Main article: Cable cars in Los Angeles Cable car street railways in Los Angeles first began operating up Bunker Hill in 1885, with a total of three companies operating in the period through 1902, [ 2 ] when the lines were electrified and electric ...
Additionally, the T Bus and 91 Owl bus routes, which provide service along the T Third Street line during the early morning and late night hours respectively when trains do not operate. The Powell-Hyde and Powell-Mason lines of the San Francisco cable car system stop at Powell and Washington Streets, one block west of the station. [6]
The Powell and Market turntable of the San Francisco cable car system, terminus of the Powell/Hyde and Powell/Mason lines, is located adjacent to the station next to Haladie Plaza. The station is also served by a number of Muni bus and trolleybus routes: [ 31 ]
The result was a compromise protected system made up of the California Street line from Cal Cable, the Powell-Mason line already in municipal ownership, and a third hybrid line made up by grafting the Hyde Street section of Cal Cable's O'Farrell, Jones & Hyde line onto a truncated Powell-Washington-Jackson line (now known as the Powell-Hyde line).