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Is there any existing railways/railroad in Trinidad's rural areas?

Postby dreamyn » January 16th, 2019, 12:15 pm

I recently been through Knolly's tunnel in Tabaquite that the train used to go through down..... but nowhere was railroad tracks to be found, I'm curious to see it and I'm sure there must be one location in a rural area where they haven't covered it up with concrete or asphalt, does anyone know or have current pics of a railroad in Trinidad?

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Postby ADONI » January 16th, 2019, 12:26 pm

Nah bai, men use railroad track for fence post or sold it for scrap iron...

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Postby sMASH » January 16th, 2019, 12:29 pm

Soon after caroni closed, the scrap iron business ramped up..

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Postby Duane 3NE 2NR » January 16th, 2019, 12:44 pm

trinidad-trains.jpg

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Postby pugboy » January 16th, 2019, 2:16 pm

Them railroad fence posts does last long

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Re: Is there any existing railways/railroad in Trinidad's rural areas?

Postby 200sx » January 16th, 2019, 3:54 pm

i came across rails a while back while running a new water main about 4-5 feet under the raod-way by Barrackpore junction opposite the market................that thing was pain for the welders to cut with a torch.............

i believe St Madeline may still have in some places..........the line used to pass by chinee wrecking services down there>

could remember my dad waiting to let my sis and i see the train pass whenever we were going to visit my uncle on that side around crop time.............

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Re: Is there any existing railways/railroad in Trinidad's rural areas?

Postby Rory Phoulorie » January 16th, 2019, 4:51 pm

What about by the railway bridge that passes over the Southern Main Road in Pointe-a-Pierre?

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Postby Nexus » January 16th, 2019, 5:05 pm

We had such a rich railroad history, there were some nice plans to bring one back around the brechin castle area as part of a heritage redevelopment initiative headed by Dr brinsley samaroo, unfortunately it was canned when govt changed. Funny enough, Barbados opened something just like that this week I think!
Look up Glenn Beadon on FB, local rail historian with some good footage and pictures etc.

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Postby zoom rader » January 16th, 2019, 6:55 pm

Few people Will know that inside of Petrotrin there is a railway station still intact, it's near the wild fowl trust .

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Re: Is there any existing railways/railroad in Trinidad's rural areas?

Postby pugboy » January 16th, 2019, 6:58 pm

If you leaving couva on rivulet road to the highway there is a railroad bridge on the north side

It's hard to find remnants of track in north but just after Victoria gardens you can see some that were cast into the pavement as some kind of barrier, ttec also used them as Guy wire supports to their poles.

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Postby maj. tom » January 19th, 2019, 4:06 pm

So on Google Earth Pro (desktop app) there's a Rail feature to check off under "Transportation." Someone had partially mapped out the old train lines in black overlay. It would be interesting to attempt to explore the lines according to the map, perhaps document it. The British had built this thing all through the forests and swamps in the 19th century. Marvelous engineering! There is going to be a lot of buried tracks all over the place. And there's bound to be plenty lost and abandoned lines even while the British were still here. Too bad these UWI historians that coming out every year seem to have no interest in documenting so much amazing history that has been lost and forgotten forever. Our Wikipedia entries are so lacking, no pride in our unknown history.

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Re: Is there any existing railways/railroad in Trinidad's rural areas?

Postby pugboy » January 19th, 2019, 5:55 pm

Well the ones that notnin remote areas are all fully occupied by squatters
They get nice firm foundation to build they house

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Re: Is there any existing railways/railroad in Trinidad's rural areas?

Postby nervewrecker » January 19th, 2019, 8:01 pm

road trip?

Where it dont have road we make road

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