Hamilton to Somerset
Travel west from Hamilton through Paget and Warwick and around the Great Sound all the way to Somerset.Click on a thumbnail to display the picture; click on the arrows to display earlier or later thumbnails.
Hamilton Station
Hamilton Station
Freight train on East Broadway
East Broadway
Middle Road Yard
The Hospital
Construction near Elbow Beach
Ord Road Station
Ord Road Station with oil tanker
Ord Road Station with oil tanker
Riddell's Bay trestle
Gibbs Hill lighthouse
Near Lighthouse Station
Black Bay Sidings
Opening the line at Bridge Hill
Somerset railway bridge
Somerset bridge with freight
This classic postcard shows a Bermuda Railway motor coach at Hamilton, or Cenotaph, Station, with the Public Buildings, home of the colonial government, in the background.
Another view of a motor coach from the same angle, the Public Buildings behind.
A freight on East Broadway pulled by one of the American diesel-electric locomotives brought in during World War II to help with the greatly increased wartime traffic.
A grimy motor coach pulling a single toast-rack coach on the way out of Hamilton.
The Railway's shops were at Middle Road Yard at the Foot of the Lane (i.e., the end of Hamilton Harbour).
Hospital Station, the first stop west of Middle Road, served Bermuda's King Edward Memorial Hospital.
A view of track construction near the site of the future Elbow Beach Station, early in 1931.
A train approaching Ord Road Station.
Another view of Ord Road with the Railway's lone oil tanker. The tanker would be loaded at Oil Docks Station, near St. George's, and then be brought to this siding at Ord Road, where it would supply the Elbow Beach Hotel.
Another view of Ord Road with the oil tanker.
A short freight crossing Riddell's Bay trestle.
From Lighthouse Station you could climb steep Tribe Road 2 and then continue up to Gibbs Hill lighthouse.
A curve somewhere near Lighthouse Station.
Black Bay sidings, between Lighthouse and Church Road stations.
Opening day in Somerset, October 31, 1931. Governor Cubitt cuts the tape at Bridge Hill Station, before the train continues across Somerset railway bridge and on to the end of the line.
Somerset railway bridge was high enough to allow sailing boats into the Great Sound from Ely's Harbour.
One of the motorized freight vans crossing Somerset Bridge.