Tjepper No5 at Statfold Barn - Destination Barbados 2019
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- After an absence of over 80 years, BARBADOS once again has a passenger railway.
The newly constructed ST NICHOLAS ABBEY HERITAGE RAILWAY was opened on 21 January 2019.
This video tells the recent story of a Mallet compound articulated locomotive built in 1914 by Arnold Jung of Germany, works number #2279, to a 0-4-4-0 wheel arrangement. Engine No. 5 'Tjepper' worked at Ceper Baru sugar mill in Java.
The locomotive was saved from the cutters torch and purchased for the Statfold Barn Railway Collection.
In 2017 the locomotive was sold to the new St Nicholas Abbey Heritage Railway in Barbados and restoration of the engine started almost immediately.
This video is a summary of the engine's journey from purchase to back in steam at Statfold Barn shortly before being shipped out to her new home in Barbados.
HISTORY: The first Railway in Barbados, the "Barbados General Railway", was built to a gauge of 3ft 6 inches. The first Company suffered financially and was taken over in 1897 by the "Bridgetown and St Andrews Railways Limited" who re-gauged the line to 2ft 6In.
In 1905 the railway was taken over by yet another private company, "The Barbados Light Railway" which also went under by 1915 when the railway was "nationalised".
On 5 December 1915 the railway became the "Barbados Government Railway". Nationalisation could not save the railway and it closed in December of 1937.
Final disposal agreement was signed on 12 October 1938.
The new ST NICHOLAS ABBEY HERITAGE RAILWAY began construction in 2017 and opened on 21 January 2019.
The inaugural train was hauled by diesel locomotive ‘BADGER’, and on the same day testing was being carried in the United Kingdom at Statfold Engineering Ltd on the steam locomotive, ‘TJEPPER’, which once completed will be sent out to Barbados.
Riding behind a steam train in the West Indies is an experience that until now could only be dreamed of by those too young to remember when wheels upon rails were driven by steam and piston stroke.
Once ‘TJEPPER’ arrives in Barbados, ST NICHOLAS ABBEY HERITAGE RAILWAY will be the only steam hauled passenger train service in the English-speaking Caribbean.
Glen Beadon 24 January 2019
Exciting! I can't wait to learn to drive her. Thanks for posting this.
Hi Michael, I will be in Barbados shortly, it would be great to meet you. Good luck with learning how to drive Tjepper.
Look forward to meeting you soon! We unload Tjepper today. First steam engine in the West Indies in almost a century.
@@secondtimeround thanks for the info, great to know that Tjepper has made it safely across the Atlantic. See you soon.
Nice to see her running, cant wait for her to land in Bim, one little point, whilst Barbados hasn't had a railway service since 1937 there was another steam loco on the island back in the very late 50's to early 60's during the construction of our 'Deep Water harbour' she seemed to have been an onsite loco for hauling , maybe the limestone or the concrete blocks used in the harbour wall construction. Thanks for sharing the vid.
Hi Anthony, I have a few photos of the 'Deep Water Harbour' construction (when Pelican Island went) but the engines in use all appear to be diesel locos. I am very interested to establish whether any of these locomotives were steam driven. I would appreciate any info you have on this. Thanks for commenting.
All that in such a short time! Well done!
maybe you want to see other locomotive in here.. at tjepper
unfortunately the sugar factory is no longer in operation and now the locomotive condition is yeah you know that
Really nice.
naguará mira tu, no solo de Rihanna vive Barbados... muy buen video pana Glen
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I would say, restore our old diesel locomotives that once pulled the sugar cane to and from St Madalin, and turn them into a moving attraction, but then I remembered...it's Trinidad we are talking about here, that's never going to happen, we don't care about our history, or the preservation of mechanical equipment and infrastructure...hate to be so negative, but our track record doesn't lie😑
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