Scenic route
St. Kitts Scenic Railway
Basseterre → La Vallee · St Kitts and Nevis
- Distance
- 29 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 15 min
- Top speed
- 30 km/h
- Operator
- St. Kitts Scenic Railway
- Train
- double-deck open-top railcars
- Countries
- St Kitts and Nevis
- In service since
- 1926
- Runs
- cruise-ship days, mainly Nov–Apr
The last railway of the West Indies loops the island on a 1912–26 sugar-cane line, ridden in double-deck open-top cars.
Between 1912 and 1926 St. Kitts ringed itself with a 762 mm railway to haul sugar cane to the central factory at Basseterre, and when the sugar industry closed in 2005 the line had already found a second life carrying cruise passengers in purpose-built double-deck cars. The train rounds the island’s Atlantic side, rumbling over tall steel bridges that span the ravines running off Mount Liamuiga. A local choir and rum punch are part of the ride; sightseeing buses complete the circle.
Along the way
- Canefields outside Basseterre
- Steel bridges over the ghuts
- Black Rocks lava coast
- Mount Liamuiga views
- Dieppe Bay
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