There is great hope for the resumption of a rail service soon in St Catherine, to meet the transportation needs primarily of students.
Minister of Transport and Mining Robert Montague, in reporting Government’s renewed interest in a rail service between Old Harbour and Linstead, via Spanish Town, promised that the system would be “moving to create a safe and orderly system to take our children to and from school”.
He told the House of Representatives on Wednesday that the Jamaica Railway Corporation’s (JRC) workshop in Kingston has been restored, and a solar light project there has been completed, in order to restart the school train service from between the three St Catherine communities.
“We are working with the Jamaica Heritage Trust to restore our station houses, especially the Old Harbour Station,” he said in the Sectoral debate in Parliament on Wednesday.
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