Railway
The railway system of Barbados implemented by Britain in the 1800s, primarily for transporting sugar cane across the island to the seaport Bridgetown, has also long since been removed. Some areas such as Two Mile Hill in St. Michael or Mile and a Quarter are a reminder of the railway era, but the rail system itself and its infrastructure no longer exists in Barbados. One of the remnants are ground stakes off the east coast of the island where foundations for the rail line were located.
Given that Barbados is the second most densely populated country in the Americas (behind only Bermuda), there is little chance that the railway would ever be recreated in Barbados. Any proposals for re-establishing a train mode of transit in Barbados would require either a subway system or an elevated monorail (likely placing it along the island's highways).
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“Her personality had an architectonic quality; I think of her when I see some of the great London railway termini, especially St. Pancras, with its soot and turrets, and she overshadowed her own daughters, whom she did not understand—my mother, who liked things to be nice; my dotty aunt. But my mother had not the strength to put even some physical distance between them, let alone keep the old monster at emotional arm’s length.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)