10 Bloor-Danforth Night (1966-1987)

Compiled by Pete Coulman
with assistance by Mike Vainchtein

Sunday, February 27, 1966 at 1:00 a.m.

Coincident with the opening of the BLOOR-DANFORTH subway, service on the 10 BLOOR-DANFORTH bus route begins, serving Bloor Street and Danforth Avenue during the night when the subway and the Bloor and Danforth streetcar shuttles don’t operate. Buses operate east from Jane Loop via Bloor Street and Danforth Avenue to Luttrell Loop and return. Buses operate out of Lansdowne and Danforth garages.

B L O O R D A N F O R T H	10	J A N E L U T T R E L L
7 days a week, “owl” service

Sunday, May 12, 1968 at 1:00 a.m.

Coincident with the extension of the BLOOR-DANFORTH subway to Islington in the west and Warden in the east, night bus service operates from the new Jane station bus terminal, via Bloor Street and Danforth Avenue, looping in Main Street station. Service east of Main Street station to Luttrell is initially abandoned, but taken up by the 93 DANFORTH EAST night bus on September 4, 1974.

Additional short turn service is added between Keele Street (looping through Keele station) and Woodbine Avenue (looping through Woodbine station).

B L O O R D A N F O R T H	10	J A N E M A I N
7 days a week, “owl” service
B L O O R D A N F O R T H	10A	K E E L E W O O D B I N E
Occasional short turns

February 8, 1987

Last day of operation. Service replaced the next day by the extended 300 BLOOR-DANFORTH BLUE NIGHT service.

10 Bloor Danforth Night Image Archive

	TTC GM "New Look" bus #3925 heads westbound on Danforth Avenue, approaching Chester in 10 BLOOR-DANFORTH service, early Sunday morning in this 1967 shot. Photo courtesy the Leonard Jacks collection.
	TTC GM "New Look" #3733 prepares to depart Main Street Station on an early Sunday morning, sometime in September 1969. This photo was taken by Richard Glaze.
	TTC GM "New Look" bus #7161 heads eastbound on Danforth Avenue, approaching Main Street in 10 BLOOR DANFORTH night service, early on a Sunday morning in September 1969. Photo by Richard Glaze.
	TTC GM New Look #7196 heads eastbound on Bloor Street, approaching Bay in early Sunday morning 10 BLOOR-DANFORTH night service. This 1971 image is courtesy the Leonard Jacks collection.
	TTC GM bus #3905 rests in Lansdowne garage in April 1984, showing off a rarely seen (in daytime, at least) exposure of the 10 BLOOR-DANFORTH night bus. Photo donated by Pete Coulman.
	A Danforth Garage side rollsign, circa 1986, showing the exposures for 10 BLOOR-DANFORTH NIGHT. Photo taken by James Bow. The rollsign is from the collection of Robert Lubinski.
	A scan of the TTC Riders News for January/February 1987, announcing the Blue Night route revision. Image courtesy Pete Coulman.
	TTC Nova RTS bus #7232 operates on Danforth Avenue passing Dewhurst on April 13, 2012. With the bus bearing a modified classic tricolour 10 BLOOR DANFORTH NIGHT rollsign, this was clearly a fan trip. Photo by Rob Hutchinson.