Course of Barbados Railway on Atlantic Coast

The eye of faith required here.

The Barbados Railway closed in 1937 owing to road competition and poor repair. It had never made any money transporting sugar cane to Bridgetown and excursionists to the wild Atlantic Coast of Barbados.

Here the track-bed runs past the front of the famed Atlantis Hotel at Bathsheba in St Joseph's parish, and then wiggles round the headland.

Inside the hotel there is a mural of the railway with one of the Baldwin's leading a train past the hotel in the 20s, together with a collection of photographs of the railway in the area.

There is a beautifully produced and comprehensive "Brief History of the Barbados Railway" by Jim Horsford available from the Barbados Museum in Bridgetown published by Locomotives International books in Cornwall UK.