Linstead to New Works railway
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The Linstead to New Works railway was a railway in Jamaica constructed in 1921 to serve a citrus growing region to the north east of Linstead.[1]
Gradients edit
Linstead is at 400 feet[2] while New Works is close below the 500 foot contour,[3] so the line must have risen around 79 feet in its three miles for an average gradient of 1 in 200 or thereabouts.
Stations and Halts edit
There must have been at least 2 stations on the line:[3]
- Linstead Station (Branch Terminus)
- New Works Station (Terminus)
Tunnels edit
There were no tunnels on the line.[3]
Bridges edit
There were probably no significant bridges on the line as its junction with the Spanish Town to Ewarton line would have been north of the Rio Magno Gully Bridge[4] (~75m)[5] and there are no other significant water courses between Linstead and New Works.[3]
See also edit
Notes and references edit
- ^ The rise and fall of railways in Jamaica 1845-1975 page 7 Archived 2007-11-02 at the Wayback Machine, Veront M Satchell & Cezley Sampson, The Journal of Transport History, March 2003.
- ^ Linstead, Falling Rain Genomics.
- ^ a b c d UK Directorate of Overseas Surveys 1:50,000 map of Jamaica Sheets G (1973), K (1966) & L (1967).
- ^ Magno may well be a corruption of Mango but is the spelling used on UK Directorate of Overseas Surveys 1:50,000 map of Jamaica Sheet K (1966).
- ^ Bridge lengths were obtained using Wikimapia's GeoTools.