From my archive of press clippings:
Jamaica Gleaner
Businesses dry up after trains move out
Published: Sunday March 7, 2010
Monica Miller-Rose (right), a dressmaker, used to sell clothes to tourists on the train. - Ian Allen/Photographer
Mel Cooke, Gleaner Writer
MONICA MILLER-ROSE runs one of the few shops still open across the road from the Catadupa train station in St James.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"Selling clothes to tourists on the trains running to Appleton Estate from Montego Bay was a major part of the railway-centred commerce. Miller-Rose, along with other dressmakers, was part of a special quick-turnaround service.
Fast service
Although they had ready-made clothes, many times a potential client did not see what they wanted in their size. So they would choose a piece of fabric, the dressmakers would take their measurements and they would continue on to Appleton for the tour."
Showing posts with label Jamaica Railway Corporation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jamaica Railway Corporation. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Monday, April 5, 2010
JG - CATADUPA:Playstation in the train station
Jamaica Gleaner
CATADUPA:Playstation in the train station
Published: Sunday March 7, 2010
The Catadupa train station in St James.
Akeem Hagnet sits on the steps of the train station, which is also his home. At age 10, the trains ceased to roll long before he was born.- Ian Allen/Photographer
Mel Cooke, Gleaner Writer
THE JAMAICA Railway Corporation train station in Catadupa, St James, looks strikingly different from the other stations The Sunday Gleaner has visited so far in the trace of the steel lines of memory across the island's interior.
Read the whole article here.
CATADUPA:Playstation in the train station
Published: Sunday March 7, 2010
The Catadupa train station in St James.
Akeem Hagnet sits on the steps of the train station, which is also his home. At age 10, the trains ceased to roll long before he was born.- Ian Allen/Photographer
Mel Cooke, Gleaner Writer
THE JAMAICA Railway Corporation train station in Catadupa, St James, looks strikingly different from the other stations The Sunday Gleaner has visited so far in the trace of the steel lines of memory across the island's interior.
Read the whole article here.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
JG - Stonehenge: Ferns take over the line
From my archive of press clippings:
Jamaica Gleaner
Stonehenge: Ferns take over the line
Published: Sunday March 7, 2010 Comments 0
The railway station in Stonehenge, St James. - Photos by Ian Allen/Photographer
Stonehenge tracks overgrown with ferns.
LESS THAN two hundred metres from the old train station, heading into the village of Stonehenge, St Elizabeth, the train line emerges from a covering of beautiful ferns, some of which are almost two metres (six feet) tall.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"The Jamaica Railway Corporation's noticeboard is still being used, as Price and Sons Funeral Service advertises its services."
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"The train line does not stay long in Stonehenge. It runs alongside the road for a few metres then veers abruptly away on its way to Appleton, St Elizabeth, separating itself from the community as abruptly as the railway service itself was severed from Jamaica."
- M.C.
Jamaica Gleaner
Stonehenge: Ferns take over the line
Published: Sunday March 7, 2010 Comments 0
The railway station in Stonehenge, St James. - Photos by Ian Allen/Photographer
Stonehenge tracks overgrown with ferns.
LESS THAN two hundred metres from the old train station, heading into the village of Stonehenge, St Elizabeth, the train line emerges from a covering of beautiful ferns, some of which are almost two metres (six feet) tall.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"The Jamaica Railway Corporation's noticeboard is still being used, as Price and Sons Funeral Service advertises its services."
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"The train line does not stay long in Stonehenge. It runs alongside the road for a few metres then veers abruptly away on its way to Appleton, St Elizabeth, separating itself from the community as abruptly as the railway service itself was severed from Jamaica."
- M.C.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
JG - Telegraph man has up and down memories
From my archive of press clippings:
Jamaica Gleaner
Telegraph man has up and down memories
Published: Sunday March 7, 2010 Comments 0
Donald Barrett (standing) and Oswald Green, two former workers of the defunct Jamaica Railway Station, remember the days when the train brought glory to the community of Catadupa. - Ian Allen/Photographer
Residents of Catadupa blame the economic hardships of the town on the cessation of the train service in the 1980s.
Pauline King (left) and Gerda Chambers at the old railway station in Catadupa.
Catadupa Railway Station -Photos by Janet Silvera
John Williams, former vice-president of the Catadupa Craft Vendors Association, still sews at his home in the district. - Photos by Janet Silvera
Mel Cooke, Gleaner Writer
About A mile from the Catadupa station, The Sunday Gleaner meets Donald Barrett and Oswald Green, the latter resting the metal of his current occupation - farming - on the ground as he sits on the metal of a key factor in his former occupation, the train line.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"Green used to go up and down the train line as well to do his job, armed with a pass from the Jamaica Railway Corporation.
Both ended in 1988, as, he says: "from (hurricane) Gilbert the telegraph go down and they don't put it back. The telegraph used to run beside the line. The stationmasters used to use it to communicate and the postmasters used to use it."
Green was employed by then state-owned Jamaica Telephone Company."
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"Green has his theory about why the passenger railway service ceased: "They had their big truck to put on the road so they wasn't interested in the train anymore."
Added Green: "It was bright, doing well, the people made their living from it. They mash it up."
And he groaned: "Whoever mash up railway shoulda get a (prison) sentence.""
Jamaica Gleaner
Telegraph man has up and down memories
Published: Sunday March 7, 2010 Comments 0
Donald Barrett (standing) and Oswald Green, two former workers of the defunct Jamaica Railway Station, remember the days when the train brought glory to the community of Catadupa. - Ian Allen/Photographer
Residents of Catadupa blame the economic hardships of the town on the cessation of the train service in the 1980s.
Pauline King (left) and Gerda Chambers at the old railway station in Catadupa.
Catadupa Railway Station -Photos by Janet Silvera
John Williams, former vice-president of the Catadupa Craft Vendors Association, still sews at his home in the district. - Photos by Janet Silvera
Mel Cooke, Gleaner Writer
About A mile from the Catadupa station, The Sunday Gleaner meets Donald Barrett and Oswald Green, the latter resting the metal of his current occupation - farming - on the ground as he sits on the metal of a key factor in his former occupation, the train line.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"Green used to go up and down the train line as well to do his job, armed with a pass from the Jamaica Railway Corporation.
Both ended in 1988, as, he says: "from (hurricane) Gilbert the telegraph go down and they don't put it back. The telegraph used to run beside the line. The stationmasters used to use it to communicate and the postmasters used to use it."
Green was employed by then state-owned Jamaica Telephone Company."
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"Green has his theory about why the passenger railway service ceased: "They had their big truck to put on the road so they wasn't interested in the train anymore."
Added Green: "It was bright, doing well, the people made their living from it. They mash it up."
And he groaned: "Whoever mash up railway shoulda get a (prison) sentence.""
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