“The old time people used to say that the Barbados Railway was mentioned in the Bible among the creeping things on Earth.” In fact, the railway opened in 1881 with 3ft 6in (1067mm) gauge locomotives from British maunfacturers. It was regauged to 2ft 6in (762mm) in 1898. After a period of decline following the First World War, the system finally closed in 1937.
