Linstead to New Works railway

v t e Linstead to New Works railway
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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]

• Linstead Station (Branch Terminus)
• New Works Station (Terminus)

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

• Railways of Jamaica

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. 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.