Preston & Berlin Street Railway

The Preston & Berlin Electric Railway was an interurban streetcar service offered covering the 12.68 kilometres (7.88 mi) between the cities of Preston, Ontario (now part of Cambridge, Ontario) and Berlin, Ontario (renamed Kitchener, Ontario during WW1). The company was formed in 1894, but lay dormant, until 1900, when construction began. The company began operation in 1904.

The Preston & Berlin Street Railway was tied to the older Galt, Preston and Hespeler Street Railway, and the two shared directors. They merged in January 1908 and incorporated as the Grand River Railway, in 1911. Some sources also indicate that the Preston & Berlin Street Railway and the Galt, Preston & Hespeler Street Railway had initially been called the Berlin, Waterloo, Wellesley & Lake Huron Railway Company when they amalgamated in 1908.

The service required a truss bridge over the Grand River, at Freeport, Ontario, completed in 1903.

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