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v t e Bog Walk to Port Antonio railway
Legend
km Main line to Spanish Town 0.0 Bog Walk 0.2 Rio Cobre Bridge ( 40 m 44 yd ) 0.5 Bog Walk Junction Main line to Ewarton 0.6 250' contour 8.1 500' contour 8.5 Crawle Halt 10.3 Riversdale 11.9 Riversdale Tunnel ( 130 m 142 yd ) 13.1 Harewood Halt 14.4 Harewood Tunnel ( 200 m 219 yd ) 14.6 Darling Spring Tunnel ( 160 m 175 yd ) 14.8 Darling Spring Halt 15.7 B2 & River Doro Bridge ( 30 m 33 yd ) 17.3 Troja 17.6 750' contour 18.6 Cromwell Mountain #1 Tunnel ( 70 m 77 yd ) 18.8 Cromwell Mountain #2 Tunnel ( 90 m 98 yd ) 19.1 Cromwell Mountain #3 Tunnel ( 160 m 175 yd ) 19.4 Cromwell Mountain #4 Tunnel ( 145 m 159 yd ) 19.6 Cromwell Mountain #5 Tunnel ( 180 m 197 yd ) 20.0 Cromwell Mountain #6 Tunnel ( 285 m 312 yd ) 20.4 750' contour 20.6 Cromwell Mountain #7 Tunnel ( 215 m 235 yd ) 21.3 Taja Halt 21.5 750' contour 21.6 Taja Tunnel ( 245 m 268 yd ) 22.1 750' contour 22.8 Flint River Tunnel ( 90 m 98 yd ) 23.5 500' contour 24.2 Bridge #1 ( 20 m 22 yd ) 24._ Flint River Bridge #2 24._ Flint River Bridge #3 24.7 500' contour 25.0 Richmond Tunnel ( 270 m 295 yd ) 25.4 500' contour 25.8 Richmond 26.0 Orange River Bridge ( 25 m 27 yd ) 26.6 500' contour 28.6 750' contour 29.1 Highgate 29.4 Highgate Junction 30.2 750' contour 31.3 500' contour 34.2 Baughs Halt 35.4 Esher 36.1 Albany 37.5 250' contour 39.1 100' contour 41.6 50' contour 44.5 Belfield Halt 43.6 Wagwater Bridge ( combined road & rail ) Grays Inn Halt Fort George Halt Pencar River Bridge ( combined road & rail ) Annotto Bay Dry River Bridge ( combined road & rail ) Fort Stewart Halt Windsor Castle Halt White River Bridge ( combined road & rail ) Buff Bay River Bridge ( combined road & rail ) Buff Bay Spring Garden Halt Spanish River Bridge ( combined road & rail ) Orange Bay Rock Hill Tunnel ( 150 m 164 yd ) Hope Bay #1 Tunnel ( 225 m 246 yd ) Hope Bay #2 Tunnel ( 50 m 55 yd ) Hope Bay #3 Tunnel ( 100 m 109 yd ) Swift River Bridge ( combined road & rail ) Hope Bay Robertson's Halt Saint Margaret's Bay Rio Grande Bridge ( combined road & rail ) Snow Hill Halt Passley Gardens Halt Norwich Halt 87 Port Antonio km

The Bog Walk to Port Antonio railway was a railway in Jamaica built to serve the banana, cacao, citrus and coconut districts of St Catherine, St Mary and Portland.

Construction, operation and closure

The railway operated from 1896 to 1978. It was temporarily closed from 1975 to 1977. The line was 54 miles (87 km) long.

Gradients

The ruling gradient was 1 in 63 with the line climbing approximately 550 feet (170 m) in 18 miles (29 km) (average gradient 1 in 173) from Bog Walk (approximately 250 feet (76 m)) to its summit at Highgate (approximately 800 feet (240 m)) then descending approximately 750 feet (230 m) in just 9 miles (14 km) (average gradient 1 in 63) to the Wag Water Bridge (just above sea level) and continuing for another 27 miles (43 km) more or less on the level and along the coast to Port Antonio.

Stations and Halts

There were 13 stations and 15 halts:

Bog Walk Station - Terminus Crawle Halt Riversdale Station Harewood Halt Darling Spring Halt Troja railway station Taja Halt Richmond Station Highgate Station Baughs Halt Esher Station Albany railway station Belfield Halt Grays Inn Halt Fort George Halt Annotto Bay Station Fort Stewart Halt Windsor Castle Halt Buff Bay Station Spring Garden Halt Orange Bay Station Hope Bay Station Robertson's Halt Saint Margaret's Bay Station Snow Hill Halt Passley Gardens Halt Norwich Halt Port Antonio Terminus

Tunnels

There were 17 tunnels:

Bridges

There were ten significant bridges. Approximate bridge lengths are shown in the route diagram to the right.

• B2 & River Doro at Darling Spring/Troja
• Orange River at Richmond
• Wagwater River
• Pencar River
• Dry River
• White River
• Buff Bay River
• Spanish River
• Swift River
• Rio Grande

Bibliography

• Satchell, Veront M & Sampson, Cezley (2003), The rise and fall of railways in Jamaica 1845-1975, The Journal of Transport History

See also

• Railways of Jamaica

Notes and references

1. Satchell & Sampson 2003, p. 6
2. Satchell & Sampson 2003, p. 7
3. Table 3.5 Mileage for JRC Stations, Halts & Sidings in relation to the Kingston Railway Terminus Archived March 15, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, Annual Transport Statistics Report: Jamaica in Figures 2003-2004, Ministry of Transport and Works, July 2005.
4. ^ UK Directorate of Overseas Surveys 1:50,000 map of Jamaica Sheets K, L & M c1970.
5. ^ Google satellite image resolution is at present insufficient to show this station/bridge.
6. Bridge lengths were obtained using Wikimapia's GeoTools.

v t e Railways of Jamaica
Passenger lines	Kingston to Montego Bay Spanish Town to Ewarton Bog Walk to Port Antonio Linstead to New Works May Pen to Frankfield
Stations	List of railway stations in Jamaica Ailford's halt Albany Anchovy Angels halt Annotto Bay Appleton Appleton Tourist halt Balaclava Baughs halt Belfield halt Bog Walk Breadnut Walk halt Bryan's Hill Buff Bay Bushy Park halt Cambridge Catadupa Chapelton Clarendon Park Comfort Hall halt Crawle halt Crescent halt Crooked River Cross Roads/Ivy Store Darling Spring halt Duck Pond halt Esher Ewarton Fort George halt Fort Stewart halt Four Paths Frankfield Gordon’s halt Grange Lane Grays Inn halt Greenvale Greenwich Town halt Gregory Park Grove Place halt Harewood halt Hartlands halt Highgate Hope Bay Horizon Park halt Hunts Bay halt Ipswich Jacob’s Hut Kendal Kingston Linstead Longville halt Maggotty Marcus Garvey Drive halt May Pen Michleton halt Montego Bay Montpelier Morgans New Works Norwich halt Old Harbour Orange Bay Oxford halt Passley Gardens halt Port Antonio Porus Richmond Riversdale Robertson's halt Rock halt Saint Margaret's Bay Scott's Pass halt Siloah halt Snow Hill halt Spanish Town Spring Garden halt St. John's Road halt Sterling Castle halt Stonehenge Suttons Taja halt Troja Trout Hall Williamsfield Windsor Castle halt
Other infrastructure	List of railway tunnels in Jamaica
Bauxite lines	Alcan Bodies to Port Esquiville (Alcan) Woodside mines to Rocky Point Port (Alcoa) Nain to Port Kaiser (Alpart) Upper Saint Ann to Discovery Bay (Kaiser) (Reynolds)
Estate lines	Appleton (sugar) Bowden (bananas)
Military lines	Logans Junction to Fort Simmonds
Notable personnel	H R Fox David Smith (railway promoter) William Smith (railway promoter)
Notable incidents	Balaclava rail disaster Kendal rail disaster
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