My grandfather who is still alive work with railway cooperation for 35 yrs and drove the train for 26 yrs I use to go to the mile gully train stop to see my grandfather he stop driving in the early 90s when it collapse he also help in the Kendal crash..big up to MR CALVIN LODGE
The people back then were very organised and appeared proud. The JRC was an infrastructure of hope for a young nation. Thank you for the glimpse of the better past
This used to be my main mode of transport to work from Gregory Pk to Kingston in the 80s! When it ceased to operate it was very difficult to get to & from work! How we seem to be going backwards instead of forward.
As a child going to school in Kingston I remember having to learn the railway stations from Kingston to Montego bay....etc. If anyone watching this remembers what they were I would be grateful as sadly with age I can only remember some parts.... Kendal, Greenvale, Cattadrupa?, Cambridge.... as those are stuck in my memory.Lol. I haven't lived in Jamaica for over 50 years but still remember those days with so much fondness. Aaaagh!!!
Now you know how worthless the pnp and the jlp no #@%*&_÷₩ ambition.The last thing they want to see are intelligent Jamaicans That is why suck up to the poor
I remember taking the train from Kingston to Montego Bay. I was a child then. Thanks dad for all the best memories of that time. I will always remember those days with much love
What a shame the squandering of a great transport foundation by the government too blind to see the benefits of keeping the passenger railway going. "Without vision the people will perish."
Welcome Welcome back. I was a regular passenger on the Rail service. A lot of my family members use to work with Jamaica Railway Co-operation some drove the trains, some open the gates and some work on the lines you would see them sometimes travelling on those trolleys. I was so sad when it stop, and so many person were out of work, but I hope it will be like before travelling to the fourteen parishes.
Thanks very much for these wonderful videos great history things I would not know about my Jamaica keep up loading more please we appreciate what this thanks
Beautiful video.. I've worked on the railway for many years and I can tell you IT'S A VERY EXPENSIVE business so I do understand why the JRC folded. Maintaining and owning rolling stock is capital intensive. So state aid is a MUST. But restarting the railway isnt impossible but we're going to need a good public private partnership and a good 15 year plan to upgrade the infrastructure train staff and buy rolling stock snd most importantly create a saftey culture & revenue "protection"
The Station Master in Port Antonio where I grew was Mr. Anderson. Father to journalist, radio and TV personality Beverly Anderson who became wife of the charismatic former Prime Minister Michael Manley.
17:06 this brings back memories of my grandmother, using a pedal sewing machine to sew my shirts, and iron them with that big iron, with charcoal burning in it.
When the narrator mentions open countryside, that's the Gregory Park station. Right there was Portmore's first post office. As a little kid with my mom, the floor boards would sink when you got mail by the window. At 11:53 , the gas station (Esso?) wasn't built yet.
This brings back some good childhood memories i used to take the train occasionally from Kingston to spanish town.Ithink they should work on reestablish a railway service but use electric trains on passenger routes & diesels on longer routes & freight services to ports .
Appreciate this archive very much. But viewing with the subtitle "for educational use only", was distracting. Could this be moved to the bottom or just shown for a few seconds in the beginning ?
I can't c one good reason why Jamaica doesn't have a railway service.....but it's partly because of our ppl too ...younger generation they want fast car / bus diving...
I enjoyed my childhood traveling the line from Port Antonio to school and church outings. in primary school students were taught the entire train route in songs and poems. It was important because one could never get lost if they traveled by foot along the tracks. A strange overnight tsunami like storm destroyed these lines along Jamaica's north coast ; uprooting the steeled tracks and twisting them like twigs. The tunnels were packed like an hand not of this world had opened the bowels of the sea and emptied them inside the tunnels. My father became a board member of the Railway corporation prior its end. Encouraging farmers and cultivators to use the cars for transporting food to markets.
Wow 1846 all these people dead I never ride the train I was a Manchester Mandeville girl born in the 80s but I love to here about my cultural, watch about my country and know my history loving my peoples those were the days compare to now 2020 morden life's and cultural but we should know our roots
Great history and record of what we achieved. We can even move beyond this if we put our minds, hearts and energy behind a purposeful resolve to succeed as a people. And in the word of our first National Hero, 'Up you mighty race, accomplish what you will'.
This says FOR EDUCATIONAL USE ONLY .. if you're watching this, you found this, because enjoying education, led you, here. You thought, or felt you and your people were more than stupid slaves, didn't you??? Didn't you??
