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St Helier (Weighbridge) railway station was a railway station in Saint Helier, the capital of Jersey in the Channel Islands. Opened in 1870 by the Jersey Railway Company, it was situated on the western side of the Weighbridge area, now Liberation Square. The station was referred to as St. Helier (Weighbridge) to distinguish it from another railway terminus opened by the Jersey Eastern Railway in 1873 at Snow Hill in St Helier. The station was in passenger operation until the line closed in 1936. ==History== The Jersey Railway first opened in 1870, running services between Saint Helier and Saint Aubin with trains stopping at the three intermediate stations, First Tower, Millbrook and Beaumont. The first trial service ran on 28 September, and on the following day a train carrying 300 invited guests departed from Saint Helier. The line was formally opened to passengers on 17 October with a grand ceremonial opening followed by a banquet at Noirmont Manor, the residence of the contractor, Mr E. Pickering. On the opening day, 4000 single journeys were made on the line. The station was originally built with a single platform under a curved trainshed. in March 1884 this platform was replaced with an island platform with two lines and two additional outer lines, and in 1893 the trainshed was replaced. The original station building was a single-storey structure which remained in use for 30 years until the Jersey Railways & Tramways Limited (JR&T) took over the line in 1896. A new two-storey station building was built by the Jersey architect Adolphus Curry and opened in 1901. It included a new booking office, refreshment rooms, company offices and a board room, and shop spaces on the ground floor. A large abattoir development was begun in 1888 adjacent to the station site. During the summer months, the arrangement of the tracks at Saint Helier station was inadequate to cope with the frequency of trains and to speed up the turnaround of locomotives, a special "slewing table" was installed in 1902. This unusual mechanism was a moving track on wheels at the end of the line in front of the buffers. Station porters could move a locomotive sideways by disconnecting the section of track on which the locomotive was standing and slide it onto the adjacent headshunt track, allowing the engine to perform a turnaround. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「St Helier (Weighbridge) railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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