Showing posts with label St. Kitts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St. Kitts. Show all posts
Monday, 4 December 2017
Friday, 12 April 2013
St. Kitts Scenic Railway, St. Kitts.
In December 2002 St Kitts Scenic Railway started operating tourist trains
over the tracks of the SSMC. At first the ride went around the whole island,
but it was later deemed too long (4 hours) and more profitable to only operate
from Needsmust Station, the first siding east of the factory and right next to
the international airport, along the Atlantic coast of the island, to La Vallee
Siding in the northwest. In this way the train is able to make two daily
round-trips.
St. Kitts Scenic Railway, St Kitts.
The St. Kitts Scenic Railway takes passengers on a 3-hour
tour that makes a 30-mile circle around the beautiful Eastern Caribbean island
of St. Kitts, with 18 miles by narrow gauge train and 12 miles on sightseeing
buses. Built between 1912 and 1926 to transport sugar cane from the island’s
sugar plantations to the sugar factory in the capital city of Basseterre, today
the “Last Railway in the West Indies” provides visitors an unsurpassed
opportunity to experience the scenery and culture of this unspoiled country.
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