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Railway crossing
A railway crossing at the intersection of a paved road in Jamaica. The crossing is located near a large tree.
Jamaica Railway Corporation - Kingston and Spanish Town rail line
"Jamaica Railway Corporation has embarked on a programme of upgrading the rail track extending between Kingston and Montego Bay. Chief Civil Engineer Keith Foster said yesterday that he was not in a position to disclose actual figures, but that…
Railway crossing - Marcus Garvey Drive
"A dangerous situation: This railway crossing along the Marcus Garvey Drive in the City is missing of one gate. What the guard has to do is to close one section of the dual highway (as indicated in photograph) and rush over to the other side and wave…
Railroad crossing - Parnassus
"Three weeks ago 11 bus passengers were killed when a bauxite train crashed into a bus at this railway crossing at Parnassus in Clarendon. Other than the railway crossing signs, there was no device to ensure that road traffic slows down when…
Roads - Constant Spring Road
"Untangling the snarl: A two-way traffic flow has been opened up along Constant Spring Road from Half Way Tree to Harris Place near the intersection of West Kings House Road to facilitate the laying of sewer mains along Eastwood Park Road. Work…
Jamaica Railway Corporation trains halted by strike
"Some of the Jamaica Railway Corporation's trains halted by strike. A section of the workforce is seeking to be represented by the Dockers and Marine Workers Union [DMWU], but the current representatives are the BITU and the NWU who have claimed no…
Jamaica Railway Corporation locomotives
"Jamaica Railway Corporation workers walked off their jobs last Wednesday, protesting the "delay in resumption of their wage negotiations." Next day they defied back-to-work orders by the Industrial Disputes Tribunal on grounds that their dispute…
Jamaica Railway Corporation new locomotive
"One of six new locomotives which the Jamaica Railway Corporation began commissioning yesterday."
Happy Grove and Circle Valley, lower St. Andrew
"The road which links the poor people of Lower Happy Grove with the affluence of Happy Grove and Circle Valley, and which runs through their community to join St. Andrew with St. Catherine."
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K.P.H. building construction
"Birdseye view of the North Street hospital complex, with the new emergency and accident block at left (background), the old Nurses Home and parking…