THE RAILWAYS OF TRINIDAD
By Glen Beadon and Roger Darsley
JUST a few miles from the mainland of South America, and roughly the size of Lancashire, the island of Trinidad once had several hundred miles of railways. Starting with isolated tramways serving the sugar industry, the island developed a network which, following unsuccessful private investors, was built by the colonial government and run by Trinidad Government Railways.
Locos built in the UK were used to operate services on the new system, which opened in 1876 and was then expanded over the next few decades. The creation of major American bases on
