{"id":13605,"date":"2015-08-01T16:29:27","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T20:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trinigo.com\/trinidad-tobago\/?p=13605"},"modified":"2020-02-25T11:16:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T15:16:56","slug":"history-of-public-transport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinigo.com\/trinidad-tobago\/trinbago-life\/our-history\/history-of-public-transport\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Public Transport in Trinidad and Tobago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Public transport in Trinidad and Tobago\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">began with the establishment of the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Trinidad Railway Company<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>in<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>1846. The Trinidad Government Railway existed between 1876 and 28 December 1968. Originally built to connect Port of Spain with Arima, the railway was extended to Couva in 1880, San Fernando in 1882, Cunapo (now Sangre Grande) in 1897, Tabaquite in 1898, Siparia in 1913 and Rio Claro in 1914. They were only able to survey Trinidad and Tobago but we unable to bring a railway<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">system due to finances.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">However, in 1859 the Cipero Tramroad became<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Trinidad\u2019s first railway. It was planters\u2019 line that passed between<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Mission<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>(now<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Princes<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Town) and\u00a0\u00a0Kings<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Wharf<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> in San Fernando<\/span>. It was used primarily to transport produce from the remote estates of the Naparimas out to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Kings<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Wharf<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>to waiting ships. The man responsible for this tramway was sugar planter<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>William Eccles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You can read more on PTSC website at http:\/\/www.ptsc.co.tt\/about-us.html<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Image Credit<br \/>\nCC BY-SA 2.5, https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=5324437<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public transport in Trinidad and Tobago\u00a0began with the establishment of the\u00a0Trinidad Railway Company\u00a0in\u00a01846. The Trinidad Government Railway existed between 1876 and 28 December 1968. Originally built to connect Port of Spain with Arima, the railway was extended to Couva in 1880, San Fernando in 1882, Cunapo (now Sangre Grande) in 1897, Tabaquite in 1898, Siparia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[965],"tags":[1252,1255,1253,1254],"class_list":["post-13605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-history","tag-history","tag-railway","tag-train","tag-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinigo.com\/trinidad-tobago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinigo.com\/trinidad-tobago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinigo.com\/trinidad-tobago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinigo.com\/trinidad-tobago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinigo.com\/trinidad-tobago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinigo.com\/trinidad-tobago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinigo.com\/trinidad-tobago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinigo.com\/trinidad-tobago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinigo.com\/trinidad-tobago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinigo.com\/trinidad-tobago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}