In the early days of the Bauxite industry in British Guiana (circa 1920-1935) the Demerara Bauxite Company (Demba) operated a wood fired steam locomotive to haul bauxite ore from the mines to the processing plant at Mackenzie, 60 miles up the Demerara river from Georgetown. Steam was supplanted by diesel when diesel became reliably available. When I was a kid I used to play on that retired steam locomotive (In the junkyard) in the 1960's, it looked just like the the Hollywood Western movie steam Locomotives. Demba also built a railroad circa 1950 from Mackenzie to Ituni about 45 miles up the Demerara river. On the tracks at Mackenzie and Ituni Demba operated a twice daily passenger run as a free community service.
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According to historical information Guyana had the first railway system in the whole of south America. The First. I Remember that it would be nice to see it again or at least some teams like you see around the city's of the united states like in San Francisco and other. Thank you for the memories sir i feel good that I had a little part of it in my younger years
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Thank you and thank you again, i have operated two of those trains in Guyana Transporting sugar workers at lusignan estate east coast demersra, six wheeler McLaren and Fowler diesel engines wow, was my most exiting experience until i migrated to the uk now living in canada, i may have an idea why the system was recovered and where it ended up. The trains i was operating was privately owned by Bookers and company in the uk in cannon street E C 4 London
Me too I was born in 1998 3of June i travelled from wakenanam to paprika and take the train to Reading. Hope then crossover to Georgetown. It was the best time of my life travelling on the train.🙏🇬🇾🇨🇦
Good morning if you were born in 1998 you could not have travelled on the Parika to Vreed en Hoop train. For your information note the proper spelling of these place names.
I was told that my grandparents who came from india during the indentured laborers period knows about trains at the portmourant sugar plantation in berbice. Today they are places refer as the old train lines at portmourant berbice guyana.
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It,s the economy, stupid. Railways cost money to, run...lots of money that Guyana did not have It's that simple, so I don't know how simpletons fail to understand.
@@AranDarcyProject -- aran..dont be silly. If the govt wanted to get rid of things colonial...then they needed to get rid of the sugar factories, hospitals, schools. The train system was just not feasible and no longer effecient.
Trains are the cheapest most reliable form of land transportation throughout the world. Forbes Burnham on the tenth Anniversary of the scrapping of the railway system admitted that he made a huge mistake.
@@chetjaikaran758 Cameras were a rarity and those that did have them, probably never thought they needed to take pictures of common things like trains. Of course there must be some pictures that were taken of such things, but they might be in some official archives or hidden away in the photo albums of some Guyanese. Facebook might very well have some.
chet... this guy is using AI to generate the videos. AI pulls whatever it wants. There are many pictures and videos of the trains. Remember, some trains were there in the late 60's when cameras were around.
There is some talk about the reintroduction of a rail service in Guyana. Might be a small one in the city or something much larger. Let's see what happens!
Note the line between Port Kaituma and Matthews Ridge. November 1978 a small group of escapees from Jonestown began walking along that rail line. A train stopped and picked em up and took them to end of the line at Matthews Ridge. As described in "Escape from Jonestown" on CNN. Ps, DON'T show trains in the US in a documentary about trains in another country.
Good documentary. However Mr Burnham was Prime Minister in 1972. He was the Political head of Government that is correct. He became President in 1980 following changes to the Constitution.
@@KeithCampbell-c5c You are quite correct sir! We did observe the culpa, 1970 should have read 1980, re to Guyana's change to a Republic and Mr. Burnham's from PM to President Thank you for contributing to our discourse!
This is A FACT::: I HAD TRAVELED WITH MY DECEASED MOM FROM "" ROSIGNOL TO GEORGETOWN I THE EARLY AND LATE 1960's !! Fish and bread was sold in trays by women at Rossignol as the train was about to depart heading to Georgetown "" all that is being described here """ ARE FACTS "" compliments for History History being told December 2024
the pnc government admitted to making a mistake on cancelling the railways..the only mistake they ever admitted to...but they did not rectify it,,, sorry about no caps
November 18-19, 1978 a group of individuals who left Jonestown and survived the Jim Jones deadly mix of Flavor-aide, a cheap knock off of Kool-Aid, that was laced with Potassium cyanide and Vallum, left the encampment under the guise of going on a "picnic" . They left the camp shortly after Senator Leo Ryan and his crew left the camp. They left for Matthews Ridge, some 30 miles away. they followed the train tracks, and were eventually picked up by the crew of the trains. It was unclear during the survivors story if it was a Passenger Train, Freight Train or an industrial train line. However they did describe a steel built bridge crossing a river. One of them was so afraid of heights she crawled across the bridge to make it to the other side.
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@AranDarcyProject Ah, so sad for you to believe that adage. It was your message I was focusing on. Yea, I wouldn't care what you look like as a simple messager. History must be told correctly. It is important for future generations. The concept is people believe that because it is broadcasted to the public, it must be true. Get your facts straight.
Very poor. A few - very few - facts surrounded by irrelevant video. If you want to learn how to do the history of a railway properly, see the youtube history of the Trinidad Government Railway by Glen Beadon.
Burnham, a black man, a dictator, was responsible for getting rid of the railways from beautiful Guyana. No one knows how much the railways was sold for and what happened to the money .
Beautiful I remember my trival from Georgetown to New Amsterdam it was memorable. Great time.😢❤😢😮
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In the early days of the Bauxite industry in British Guiana (circa 1920-1935) the Demerara Bauxite Company (Demba) operated a wood fired steam locomotive to haul bauxite ore from the mines to the processing plant at Mackenzie, 60 miles up the Demerara river from Georgetown. Steam was supplanted by diesel when diesel became reliably available. When I was a kid I used to play on that retired steam locomotive (In the junkyard) in the 1960's, it looked just like the the Hollywood Western movie steam Locomotives. Demba also built a railroad circa 1950 from Mackenzie to Ituni about 45 miles up the Demerara river. On the tracks at Mackenzie and Ituni Demba operated a twice daily passenger run as a free community service.
@@toowild5057 Thanks for your very informative contribution: this is exactly the kind of interaction we hoped for when we offer up our content.
It is very satisfying when persons in our community can relate to what we produce and then share their own personal experiences with us.
Thanks!
I love ❤️ this information I used to love riding on the train 🙏🇨🇦🇬🇾
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It is easy to take things from granted on our busy lives! Mr. Darcy, it is so rewarding to be able to subscribe to your awesome TH-cam channel and learn to much from your so intrinsic and wonderful research on many topics including Guyana! It for sure gives us all the opportunity to understand and share the important facts about our identity with our family, children, grandchildren and friends! Terrific Work!
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Nicely done. I have travelled as a boy on the Georgetown-Rosignol line once.
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I am a Guyanese and was ignorant of much of this history. Thank you for sharing.
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According to historical information Guyana had the first railway system in the whole of south America. The First. I Remember that it would be nice to see it again or at least some teams like you see around the city's of the united states like in San Francisco and other. Thank you for the memories sir i feel good that I had a little part of it in my younger years
@@charlespermaul6966 Thanks for sharing your views, we are glad that you enjoyed the article.
Look for this book on Amazon KDP Aran Darcy and The Streets of Boyhood.
You will find it very full of good memories of growing up in Guyana.
I love riding the train 🚆 back in my days, every Sunday my family will ride it to berbice.
@@alwynfrench1122 Thanks for sharing your experience 😀
Thank you and thank you again, i have operated two of those trains in Guyana Transporting sugar workers at lusignan estate east coast demersra, six wheeler McLaren and Fowler diesel engines wow, was my most exiting experience until i migrated to the uk now living in canada, i may have an idea why the system was recovered and where it ended up. The trains i was operating was privately owned by Bookers and company in the uk in cannon street E C 4 London
@@jaipaulpersaud9782 Thank you very much Mr. Persaud! I know some Persaud from Kitty in Guyana.
I had loved to ride on the old steam train (AKA smokie) Georgetown to Rosignol. I used to take the train from Kitty and go to the beach at BV.
Me too I was born in 1998 3of June i travelled from wakenanam to paprika and take the train to Reading. Hope then crossover to Georgetown. It was the best time of my life travelling on the train.🙏🇬🇾🇨🇦
Good morning if you were born in 1998 you could not have travelled on the Parika to Vreed en Hoop train. For your information note the proper spelling of these place names.
I was born in 1958 I used to take the train from paprika ❤
This is one of my deepest regrets. I never got the chance to travel on these trains.
I was told that my grandparents who came from india during the indentured laborers period knows about trains at the portmourant sugar plantation in berbice. Today they are places refer as the old train lines at portmourant berbice guyana.
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Nice great information 😊❤
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Good information ❤🎉
some of you are saying it's the economy , but don't forget that burnham had all guyana's money in his name in the swiss bank. ..such a 'great' leader
Yeah burnham was a teef. He cared nothing about Guyana.
Those good days
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I was born in Guyana
In 1970 and I have to ask (Why the Government discontinued all those Trains )in just a fews years? I want Answers!
@@robertcameron1749 I have a The government of that time, the PNC, got rid of many of not everything, that was the country's colonial past. ....
It,s the economy, stupid.
Railways cost money to, run...lots of money that Guyana did not have
It's that simple, so I don't know how simpletons fail to understand.
Why be so rude🙄
@@AranDarcyProject -- aran..dont be silly. If the govt wanted to get rid of things colonial...then they needed to get rid of the sugar factories, hospitals, schools. The train system was just not feasible and no longer effecient.
Trains are the cheapest most reliable form of land transportation throughout the world. Forbes Burnham on the tenth Anniversary of the scrapping of the railway system admitted that he made a huge mistake.
Great information
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How come there is no actual video or photography of this railway?
@@chetjaikaran758 Cameras were a rarity and those that did have them, probably never thought they needed to take pictures of common things like trains.
Of course there must be some pictures that were taken of such things, but they might be in some official archives or hidden away in the photo albums of some Guyanese. Facebook might very well have some.
chet... this guy is using AI to generate the videos. AI pulls whatever it wants. There are many pictures and videos of the trains. Remember, some trains were there in the late 60's when cameras were around.
Interesting history!!❤ it's called railway embankment now!
@@daisysingh4659 Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
This is one of guyana best history wish if modernized ŕailroad e .g what's in Toronto 🎉🎉
There is some talk about the reintroduction of a rail service in Guyana. Might be a small one in the city or something much larger. Let's see what happens!
Note the line between Port Kaituma and Matthews Ridge. November 1978 a small group of escapees from Jonestown began walking along that rail line. A train stopped and picked em up and took them to end of the line at Matthews Ridge. As described in "Escape from Jonestown" on CNN.
Ps, DON'T show trains in the US in a documentary about trains in another country.
The Port Kaituma/Mathew's Ridge railway ran into the late 1980's.
@@718Philo Ok. Thanks for sharing that. Can you offer some information that? Who was running it and who used it? Please let us know..
@AranDarcyProject It was run by Matarkai. The sub regions of Matthew's Ridge, Arakaka and Kaituma. Formerly known as the Garrison.
@@718Philo Thanks for the update.
Good documentary. However Mr Burnham was Prime Minister in 1972. He was the Political head of Government that is correct. He became President in 1980 following changes to the Constitution.
@@KeithCampbell-c5c You are quite correct sir! We did observe the culpa, 1970 should have read 1980, re to Guyana's change to a Republic and Mr. Burnham's from PM to President
Thank you for contributing to our discourse!
This is A FACT::: I HAD TRAVELED WITH MY DECEASED MOM FROM "" ROSIGNOL TO GEORGETOWN I THE EARLY AND LATE 1960's !! Fish and bread was sold in trays by women at Rossignol as the train was about to depart heading to Georgetown "" all that is being described here """ ARE FACTS "" compliments for History History being told December 2024
@@jeromeclarke4141 Thanks for sharing your insights with us. Your contributions are always welcome.
the pnc government admitted to making a mistake on cancelling the railways..the only mistake they ever admitted to...but they did not rectify it,,, sorry about no caps
November 18-19, 1978 a group of individuals who left Jonestown and survived the Jim Jones deadly mix of Flavor-aide, a cheap knock off of Kool-Aid, that was laced with Potassium cyanide and Vallum, left the encampment under the guise of going on a "picnic" . They left the camp shortly after Senator Leo Ryan and his crew left the camp. They left for Matthews Ridge, some 30 miles away. they followed the train tracks, and were eventually picked up by the crew of the trains.
It was unclear during the survivors story if it was a Passenger Train, Freight Train or an industrial train line. However they did describe a steel built bridge crossing a river. One of them was so afraid of heights she crawled across the bridge to make it to the other side.
Thanks for sharing this insight...
First of all, if you would like to do a documentary. Learn the correct pronunciations and get someone from the location to give accurate information.
@@princeyoung5606 My friend, in these videos, as in life itself, if you focus on the messenger, you very often miss the message......
At ADP, it's the message that we hope to get across....we trust that you will be able to always see the whole picture.
Thanks for being a valuable member of our community
@AranDarcyProject Ah, so sad for you to believe that adage. It was your message I was focusing on. Yea, I wouldn't care what you look like as a simple messager.
History must be told correctly. It is important for future generations. The concept is people believe that because it is broadcasted to the public, it must be true. Get your facts straight.
Very poor. A few - very few - facts surrounded by irrelevant video.
If you want to learn how to do the history of a railway properly, see the youtube history of the Trinidad Government Railway by Glen Beadon.
Thanks for the tip. We're sure to take a look at that. Thanks for sharing your views.
Burnham, a black man, a dictator, was responsible for getting rid of the railways from beautiful Guyana. No one knows how much the railways was sold for and what happened to the money .
Me too love riding on the train not for getting the fish/bread