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Re: Train to nowhere? Defunct JRC bleeds millions
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Dr.Dudd</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Magic</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The last thing to go was the Appleton Express dem use to fun fi touris. That was unda PJ. </div></div>
That is the part that went during PNP administration,and it was not a pasenger service. It was a tourist charter,that operated on demand. </div></div>
Why would someone who has the following lines in his siggy
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="color: #CC6600">Join me as members of the church of LOVE,and let us change the world, one good deed at a time. </span></div></div>
, go through so much troubles to lie his a$$ off, to spin and to denigrate other members and the truth?
I am 99% sure that the evidence is already in all the links to this post but just to make sure I went back on the Net and found a few links to reference the date of the closing of the Rail Service.
So here they are challenge this if you can:
answers.com
Jamaica
<span style="color: #6633FF">Railways: total: 272 km
standard gauge: 272 km 1.435-m gauge
note: 207 of these km belonging to the Jamaica Railway Corporation had been in common carrier service until 1992 but are no longer operational; 57 km of the remaining track is privately owned and used by ALCAN to transport bauxite (2003)</span>
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Tragedy at Kendal - 1957
The worst rail disaster in Jamaica's history, and the second worst rail disaster in the world at that time.
<span style="color: #6633FF">Having run for over 150 years, the railway ceased operation in 1992 except for sections on which bauxite is drawn.</span>
Sources: Clarke, C. G. (1974). Jamaica in Maps. London: Hodder &
Staughton Educational, Cundall, F (1923) Handbook of Jamaica. Kingston:
Government Printing Office, Johnston J. (1903) Jamaica, the New
Riviera. London: Cassell and Co. Ltd, The Jamaica Railway Corporation.
The Railway in Jamaica, 1845-1870 - A Short History. Kingston : JRC.
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China-Jamaica rail talks back on track
Observer Reporter
Friday, May 19, 2006
<span style="color: #000099">The JRC, which was incorporated in 1960 to provide passenger and
freight transportation, had signed a 30-year track user agreement with Windalco, then Alcan Jamaica, but suspended its own service in October of 1992.</span>
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/magazines...CK_ON_TRACK.asp
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Jamaica Information
<span style="color: #6600CC">Railways (km) total: 272 km standard gauge: 272 km 1.435-m gauge note: 207 of these km belonging to the Jamaica Railway Corporation had been in common carrier service until 1992 but are no longer operational; 57 km of the remaining track is privately owned and used by ALCAN to transport bauxite (2003) </span>
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Dr.Dudd</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Magic</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The last thing to go was the Appleton Express dem use to fun fi touris. That was unda PJ. </div></div>
That is the part that went during PNP administration,and it was not a pasenger service. It was a tourist charter,that operated on demand. </div></div>
Why would someone who has the following lines in his siggy
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="color: #CC6600">Join me as members of the church of LOVE,and let us change the world, one good deed at a time. </span></div></div>
, go through so much troubles to lie his a$$ off, to spin and to denigrate other members and the truth?
I am 99% sure that the evidence is already in all the links to this post but just to make sure I went back on the Net and found a few links to reference the date of the closing of the Rail Service.
So here they are challenge this if you can:
answers.com
Jamaica
<span style="color: #6633FF">Railways: total: 272 km
standard gauge: 272 km 1.435-m gauge
note: 207 of these km belonging to the Jamaica Railway Corporation had been in common carrier service until 1992 but are no longer operational; 57 km of the remaining track is privately owned and used by ALCAN to transport bauxite (2003)</span>
<span style="color: #CCCCCC">/_/_//_/_//_/_//_/_//_/_//_/_//_/_//_/_//_/_//_/_//_/_//_/_//_/_//_/_/</span>
Tragedy at Kendal - 1957
The worst rail disaster in Jamaica's history, and the second worst rail disaster in the world at that time.
<span style="color: #6633FF">Having run for over 150 years, the railway ceased operation in 1992 except for sections on which bauxite is drawn.</span>
Sources: Clarke, C. G. (1974). Jamaica in Maps. London: Hodder &
Staughton Educational, Cundall, F (1923) Handbook of Jamaica. Kingston:
Government Printing Office, Johnston J. (1903) Jamaica, the New
Riviera. London: Cassell and Co. Ltd, The Jamaica Railway Corporation.
The Railway in Jamaica, 1845-1870 - A Short History. Kingston : JRC.
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China-Jamaica rail talks back on track
Observer Reporter
Friday, May 19, 2006
<span style="color: #000099">The JRC, which was incorporated in 1960 to provide passenger and
freight transportation, had signed a 30-year track user agreement with Windalco, then Alcan Jamaica, but suspended its own service in October of 1992.</span>
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/magazines...CK_ON_TRACK.asp
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moveandstay.com
Jamaica Information
<span style="color: #6600CC">Railways (km) total: 272 km standard gauge: 272 km 1.435-m gauge note: 207 of these km belonging to the Jamaica Railway Corporation had been in common carrier service until 1992 but are no longer operational; 57 km of the remaining track is privately owned and used by ALCAN to transport bauxite (2003) </span>
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