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
@Si_Mi_Yah8767 жыл бұрын
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
@JRTillmon-pw5jq4 ай бұрын
LoL 😂😆 the further back you go, the better we look.. try the civil war soldiers, buffalo soldiers, and 1912 dance halls 😉🤭
@elfredacarty91349 ай бұрын
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.
@jamtalawah22312 жыл бұрын
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!!!
@glenatkinson77326 жыл бұрын
Such a rich history...always squandered by governments and corporate overlords. Jamaica yes!
@rudyyorke60534 жыл бұрын
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
@warning3163 жыл бұрын
I remember riding on one of these as a child, one of the key moments in my life.
@sonyamcneal9046 Жыл бұрын
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
@cherrystephenson66993 жыл бұрын
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.
@jarrietfair64973 жыл бұрын
This is history of Africa and Jamaica railways. I'm learning more everyday
@kwacou42794 ай бұрын
Africa? English Caribbean. The Jamaican railroad is one of the oldest in the world. 2nd oldest in the Americas.
@zndrsmith5 жыл бұрын
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."
@peterevans68 Жыл бұрын
You are right it sad knowing the Rich history of railroad coming from 1846.😪
@jarrietfair64973 жыл бұрын
Wowww my people were apart of railroad history. Just like me in the USA. Growing up watching and learning about train's
@fleurettemvangulden78837 жыл бұрын
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.
@peggybabb40106 жыл бұрын
Fleurette M Van Gulden jn
@peggybabb40106 жыл бұрын
Fleurette M Vlan Gulden mm
@waynemcfarlane12332 жыл бұрын
I knew you telling the truth because I knew someone from Portland that related to her
@petertownsend2255 Жыл бұрын
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"
@logieshelbytv75943 жыл бұрын
Very educational. It's always good to have knowledge of our history
@fyahwerks7 жыл бұрын
i thank you so much for these videos. I depend heavy on these videos to learn about the past. I am always excited in see these videos.
@vernalmorgan64015 жыл бұрын
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
@helomedia7676 жыл бұрын
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.
@stevengascoigne8627 Жыл бұрын
Brilliant footage,thank you so much,shame you did not preserve this railway...steve,mullaloo,westen Australia 😀
@igotcha37616 жыл бұрын
Awesome history. Thank you
@AFN415 жыл бұрын
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.
@goalfever765 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this video... Jamaica 🇯🇲 has a great history.
@normanmjohnson6 ай бұрын
How could this garnered only 53 comments. This is jewel
@robertcampbell99465 жыл бұрын
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 .
@lilliansmith6024 Жыл бұрын
Amen❤🍵🍵❤👍🙏
@patrickchambers27382 ай бұрын
This in a lovely walk down memory lane for a former brakesmam
@wellok57786 жыл бұрын
Mr Salmom - among other things, late great UWI accounts lecturer
@markc36667 жыл бұрын
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 ?
@fleurettemvangulden78837 жыл бұрын
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.
@shelsparkle26916 жыл бұрын
Fleurette M Van Gulden why did they stop the trains
@seelondon1006 жыл бұрын
Shame about the numbers of views, yet if it was fighting and cussing...
@jamtalawah22312 жыл бұрын
As a child going to prep school in Kingston, I remember having to learn the railway stations from Kingston to Montego bay
@navig8theway7 жыл бұрын
could not watch it all the way thru. i hope to soon. but i wish modern jamaica could conceptualize a full functioning modern railway system
@fleurettemvangulden78837 жыл бұрын
Considered a hefty task and expensive to repair the lines and tunnels that mother nature destroyed
@SuperDavidtheone5 жыл бұрын
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'.
@devonjames4006 Жыл бұрын
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...
@racquelford15954 жыл бұрын
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
@anneshaadams4 жыл бұрын
love this
@maried66735 жыл бұрын
No volume for me.. a can’t hear anyting
@nicolescott13545 жыл бұрын
Boy, we're a trying nation. We try with our own airline, railway and many other things.
@peterevans68 Жыл бұрын
Wow,they were looking to upgrade the system so what happen.
@northside3701 Жыл бұрын
Uneducated government... 😐
@richmck0076 жыл бұрын
Is there a national or private railway in Jamaica today, 2018???
@blacknwhitetruthfully53256 жыл бұрын
rich Mck yes both private owned by aluminum companies n it have the public one owned by the government
@IIAOPSW6 ай бұрын
Also known as the Long Island Railroad
@onielmartin43056 жыл бұрын
can these videos be narrated?????
@user-ze1uh6ib9m4 ай бұрын
Today the J.R.C. Crashed because both the JLP and the PNP Cannot mentained it because Jamaica or Jamaican's is not independent!!!!
@JRTillmon-pw5jq4 ай бұрын
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??
@bennettstephenson90906 жыл бұрын
what the Rass is educational if you are not hearing. the program
@DELTAFORCE3 Жыл бұрын
If there is a Chinese man there a fool them a fool you those train only good for making a good work horse
@bennettstephenson90906 жыл бұрын
what the Rass is educational. if you are not hearing. problem!
@sranang-kino Жыл бұрын
how you pimp history so ? big bloodclat logo tru the video ..shame on you !
@RobertLoyed16 күн бұрын
Which shows British rule was the most successful in managing Jamaica😅