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The first attempt to establish a railway was a private affair in 1846 by the Trinidad Railway Company. [1] Trinidad Railway Company's very first steam locomotive was the "Forerunner" which was built by Hunslet of Leeds and arrived in 1864. [2] Railway construction began in the 1870s. The Arima line was completed in 1876, followed by the San ...
(The narrow-gauge agricultural railway was shut down in the late 1990s). On April 11, 2008 the Trinitrain consortium announced it would plan and build the 105 km two-line Trinidad Rapid Railway. [1] It was claimed that the new railways were needed to overcome growing road congestion. [2] However the project was cancelled in September 2010. [3] [4]
The Public Transport Service Corporation or better known as PTSC is the state-owned public transport provider for Trinidad and Tobago. Its headquarters are at City Gate in Port of Spain (formerly the Trinidad Government Railway headquarters). Passengers have to buy the tickets at a ticket booth and show it to the driver.
Rapid transit in Trinidad and Tobago (1 P) Pages in category "Rail transport in Trinidad and Tobago" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
Example of a double decker passenger car, proposed to be used for Trinidad Rapid Railway. On 11 April 2008, the TriniTrain consortium of Alstom Transport SA, Alstom T&T Ltd, Bouygues Construction and RATP Développement announced it had been selected by the government to plan and build two new passenger railway lines in Trinidad. [1]
The History of the NUGFW: its contribution to the political, social and economic development of Trinidad and Tobago. unpublished. This Trinidad and Tobago article is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it .
Although the song is sometimes said to be about the termination of railway service to San Fernando, Trinidad Government Railway did not actually stop running passenger trains to the city until 1965, long after the song was written and became a hit; the "last train" referred to in the song is the last train of the night, not the last train ...
The Holy Ghost Fathers of Trinidad. The Litho Press, Port of Spain. ISBN 976-8136-87-1. Hill, Jonathan D., and Fernando Santos-Granero (eds). 2002. Comparative Arawakan Histories. Meighoo, Kirk. 2003. Politics in a Half Made Society: Trinidad and Tobago, 1925–2002 ISBN 1-55876-306-6; Newson, Linda A. 1976. Aboriginal and Spanish Colonial ...