Linstead to
New Works railway
Legend
km
4.8
 New Works
various infrastructure
on a gently rising gradient
Main line to Ewarton
Rio Magno gully (
75 m
82 yd
)
0.0
 Linstead
Main line to Spanish Town

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

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

There must have been at least 2 stations on the line:[3]

Tunnels

There were no tunnels on the line.[3]

Bridges

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

Notes and references

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Linstead, Falling Rain Genomics.
  3. ^ a b c d UK Directorate of Overseas Surveys 1:50,000 map of Jamaica Sheets G (1973), K (1966) & L (1967).
  4. ^ 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).
  5. ^ Bridge lengths were obtained using Wikimapia's GeoTools.


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