St. Nicholas Abbey Heritage Railway

Saint Peter · Barbados

St. Nicholas Abbey Heritage Railway, Barbados
Photo: Timothy Titus, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
December–May
Budget
$$
Accessibility
limited
Coordinates
Open in maps

This narrow-gauge heritage railway winds through the grounds of a 17th-century sugar estate in the northern hills of Barbados, carrying passengers by steam locomotive to a ridge-top viewpoint. The line was laid in recent years to interpret the estate's plantation landscape and gives sweeping vistas over the wild Scotland District and the Atlantic coast. It complements the estate's Jacobean great house and working rum distillery. The restored engine and open carriages recall the sugar tramways that once crossed the island.

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