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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 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. The fares vary with ...
Rail map as of 1925. There was a minimal agricultural railway system near San Fernando, but the Trinidad Government Railway that was built while Trinidad and Tobago was a colony of the United Kingdom was gradually scaled back until it was discontinued in 1968. (The narrow-gauge agricultural railway was shut down in the late 1990s).
In a meeting with then Prime Minister Patrick Manning on 28 April 2009, Minister of Works & Transport, Colm Imbert said construction of the Trinidad Rapid Railway would commence in mid-2010, with the first train rolling out of the capital city approximately 36 to 39 months later [3] as detailed by the National Infrastructure Development Company ...
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.
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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 ...