Trinidad Government Railway

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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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[@bjornjoseph]

Why would they get rid of it?? Blows my mind how auto industry can destroy rail

[@tedmagid4710]

Biggest mistake in closing the railway

[@TheKeithvidz]

PNM destroys the good as they create the bad.

[@markmunroe-hz8rf]

With high crime and today's youth, it was probably for the best.

[@fleetwoodvo8673]

Got here from an old rock song called Last Train to San Fernando. Thank you for showing me the TGR.

[@SuperSnk1]

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 .

[@johngillespie1055]

How wonderful it could have been to have had with some degree of political foresight a modernised railway system substantially serving the old routes. Coupled with a modern tramway system in the City.....no East/west corridor traffic to contend with and the bonus of a substantially car-free City Wow!

[@deway6832]

Bring it bacc

[@ariban]

We really need trains again 😢

[@kennedywong9854]

I wish the government never shut down TGR because every other country take care their trains station.

[@michaelderrick2088]

I appreciate the history… thanks

[@ej1872]

Thank you so much for this❣❣❣

[@akeemalleyne407]

A few should have kept functional for public education and tourism.

[@deedee8043]

Ent or just re vamp the system by upgrading the trains we would have benefited from it would have added to our transport system now look we want it back and they never follow up on the rapid rail systems it is sad 🥺🥺🥺 we could have been at a first world status even more 🥺🥺🥺

[@TheKeithvidz]

@@deedee8043 read my mind - once i knew of what happened couldn't help but think just one more mistake. Half a billion for rapid rail study alone - was just thinking of the waste. First world I too want.

[@TheKeithvidz]

Akeem, adding to my manifesto.

[@TheKeithvidz]

Yes and no. Keep the trains system and improve as Japan did.

[@richardjohn7485]

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

[@Aydan.tt_]

WE NEED BACK TRAINS

[@deedee8043]

Agree they could build underground subways

[@deedee8043]

They could have just revamp the system and upgrade the trains make underground sub ways now we feeling the brunt of it in our transport systems today it is sad so many people lost their jobs over the years from the past and current governments closing down things they just run us down to the slums i should say is by the grace of God we trinis surviving 🥺🥺 but there is still hope if we unite and pray hard God will turn around everything 🙏

[@Aydan.tt_]

@@deedee8043 YEP THAT IS TRUE, AND ESPICIALLY IF THEY DO THE SUB WAY TRANSPORTATION THING THE GOVERNMENT WILL ALSO GET MONEY, LIKE $50.00 DOLLARS FEE IT'S A WIN WIN, I AM 12 YEARS OF AGE AND I WANT TRAINS SO DR.KEITH ROWLEY PLEASE MAKE A GOOD CHOICE AND BRING BACK TRAINS

[@Kris-qy7hh]

@@Aydan.tt_ do you have discord? I’d like to send you some pictures of the Trinidad locomotives I’ve seen, if you don’t mind

[@Aydan.tt_]

@@Kris-qy7hh WELL I HAD DISCORD UNTIL I DELETE IT BUT I WILL DOWNLOAD IT BACK AND TELL YOU MY NAME

[@rishiboodhoo4343]

Vissionless eric williams closed it down great is the pnm as usual

[@lincolnsylvester5425]

I hope this can become a reality

[@TheKeithvidz]

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.

[@user-kk7tk1rn4d]

The gov was very sgupid tl dhut it down

[@kimberlytv7895]

Can use train from Trinidad to US?

[@dominicindoubt]

There are no trains in Trinidad anymore

[@kimberlytv7895]

@@dominicindoubt Okey,I hope one day they will have it

[@deedee8043]

@@kimberlytv7895 i hope so too i wish they wasnt so quick to give up on the trains 🥺🥺🥺 it would have help us out today with our tourism and transport system it is sad 🥺🥺🥺 we was suppose to get a rapid rail system we never got it 😭😭😭

[@kimberlytv7895]

@@deedee8043 i understand dear

[@Sthmohtwenty]

We train in Guyana last longer ..ours end 8nm1972

[@moviesync3131]

ppl lost their legs

[@chickenpotpie4045]

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.

[@zia2066]

Pnm closing down everything , even petrotrin

[@thelibran11]

I wonder why the British Company Tate & Lyle close down the sugsr industry...

[@zia2066]

@@thelibran11 manning close down sugar industry puss puss

[@jillathewolf1622]

I want my homeland that raped us on and still do to at least have a road like theirs cctv police and army, politicians that aren’t corrupt inside out and much much more time to wake up economic development in the Caribbean islands

[@melanoarkibab2936]

Fucking pnm done d train /Petrotin/sugarcane/Boat to Tobago

[@TheKeithvidz]

if i could like twice.