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Jamaica Railway Corporation - railway equipment
Railway equipment at Bowden, St. Thomas. These Sanco engines were used to pull sugar from warehouses and to ship bananas.
Jamaica Railway Corporation - Kingston station
"Idle trains at Kingston station following a strike of railway workers."
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…
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 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…
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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Church Street
"This truck was the victim of the aftermath of the heavy rains in Down Town Kingston, as owing to the heavy water along Church Street, the driver…