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Hamilton to Paget & Warwick

After passing Middle Road Yard the Bermuda Railway turned south at the Foot of the Lane, crossing the high Springfield Trestle and climbing Trimingham Hill. Turning west, the line passed under South Road through the railway’s second tunnel, at Rural Hill, and then continued west through the parishes of Paget and Warwick.
  • Springfield Trestle
    Springfield Trestle
    The tall Springfield Trestle at the Foot of the Lane carried the railway around the end of Hamilton harbour on its way to Somerset.
  • Elbow Beach station in Paget parish
    Elbow Beach station in Paget parish
    A simple stop with no passing siding or freight facilities, Elbow beach station served the Elbow Beach Hotel and the popular south shore beaches. See this location today
  • Adjusting railway ties in April, 1931
    Adjusting railway ties in April, 1931
    Bermuda Railway workers moving ties into place on track near Elbow Beach in April 1931.
  • Passengers waiting for the train at Ord Road
    Passengers waiting for the train at Ord Road
    Waiting for the train to stop at Ord Road station. Most stops had nothing more than a simple wooden passenger shelter.
  • West India Oil Company tanker at Ord Road
    West India Oil Company tanker at Ord Road
    The West India Oil Company tanker in the siding at Ord Road station. Oil for the Elbow Beach Hotel fresh water plant was pumped to the hotel through a pipeline.
  • Another view of Ord Road station
    Another view of Ord Road station
    Ord Road station, with its wooden shelter and the Bermuda Railway’s one tank car visible in the siding.
  • A power freight van at Cobb’s Hill
    A power freight van at Cobb’s Hill
    One of the more powerful, 300-hp power freight vans at Cobb’s Hill
  • A trestle in Warwick
    A trestle in Warwick
    The cost of maintaining the railway’s many wooden trestles was a contributing factor to its closure in 1948.
  • Another wooden passenger shelter
    Another wooden passenger shelter
    About a dozen Bermuda Railway stations had stone buildings, the rest had simple wooden passenger shelters. This is a more elaborate example.
  • Train entering Riddell’s Bay station
    Train entering Riddell’s Bay station
    Motor freight van pulling a single passenger trailer entering Riddell’s Bay station. The wooden box on the right holds the key token apparatus the conductor used to obtain permission to enter the next block of the railway. (Courtesy Okinawa Soba)
  • Riddell’s Bay station
    Riddell’s Bay station
    A view of a classic Bermuda Railway station, with a passing loop in the centre, passenger shelter on the right, and a freight spur and freight house just visible on the left. (Courtesy Okinawa Soba) See this location today
  • Motor freight van pulling a load of ballast
    Motor freight van pulling a load of ballast
    Motor freight van #101, City of Hamilton. hauling what appears to be a load of coral rock ballast in one of the the railway's four open freight wagons.