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Deep in the hills of rural Jamaica, a railway was built that defied all logic.
In 1896, engineers and laborers carved seven tunnels through Cromwell Mountain, threw iron bridges across river valleys, and laid 54 miles of track through terrain that had no business having a railway at all. This is the story of the Bog Walk to Port Antonio branch line — and the forgotten station at Troja that sat at the heart of it.
Built to move bananas from the parishes of St Mary and Portland to the ships waiting at Port Antonio, this railway was one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects in Caribbean history. It connected communities, drove Jamaica’s agricultural economy, and demonstrated a level of engineering skill that has never been fully acknowledged — until now.
In this video, we explore the genesis of the Troja railway station, the construction of the legendary Cromwell Mountain tunnel network, the banana trade that made it all necessary, and the lessons modern Jamaica can draw from this remarkable chapter of its history.
The train stopped running in 1978.
But the evidence of what was built here never left.
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