Trinidad Government Railway
Published 2017-08-21
It is fast approaching 50 years since Trinidad abandoned its passenger rail network in 1968, and 20 years since cane trains operated on the island. Reminders of this once vast network of railways are still literally everywhere to be seen in the form of abandoned buildings, names of places, rusting old bridges and a handful of crumbling national monuments.
Trinidad’s railways originated primarily for cane haulage in the Naparimas, around San Fernando in circa1839, a full thirty-seven years before the Trinidad Government Railways laid its first line to Arima, and ended in 1998, thirty years after the TGR was abandoned.
It is salutary to reflect that railways in Trinidad ended in the same place as they began, performing the very same task for which they were originally built now well over 150 years ago.
This video presentation briefly covers the Trinidad Government Railway period on the island.
Glen Beadon 18 August 2017
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All Comments (21)
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Why would they get rid of it?? Blows my mind how auto industry can destroy rail
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Biggest mistake in closing the railway
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Got here from an old rock song called Last Train to San Fernando. Thank you for showing me the TGR.
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Thanks for this vid. Very fond memories of riding the trains from San Fernando to Port of Spain especially on School outings and Boy Scouts Jamborees . Remember going as a Cub Scout along with the Older Scouts and there after as a older Scout to the yearly gatherings held in POS at the Headquarters in St.Anns marching from the railway station. Great times .
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Bring it bacc
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We really need trains again 😢
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I wish the government never shut down TGR because every other country take care their trains station.
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I appreciate the history… thanks
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Thank you so much for this❣❣❣
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A few should have kept functional for public education and tourism.
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In Many countries millions of people still use trains as a means of transport but here in trinidad past governments have no vision to improve these things so they destroy it
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WE NEED BACK TRAINS
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Vissionless eric williams closed it down great is the pnm as usual
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I hope this can become a reality
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I am denied the chance to see, much less ride one because of Eric's bad decision's. Money spent building PBR wiser spent MODERNIZING OURS.
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The gov was very sgupid tl dhut it down
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Can use train from Trinidad to US?
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We train in Guyana last longer ..ours end 8nm1972
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ppl lost their legs
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Instead of our government approving a $60m "upgrade" for the zoo, it would have been a much more impactful legacy for them to use that same money to reopen a tram service around the savannah. Instead they aim for short sighted and frankly idiotic goals, the zoo is already poorly located and has already outgrown it's available space, it needs to be relocated.
