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Open day
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| July 31st 1936 was the opening day of Jaywicks miniture railway.It
was grey and wet but that did not dampen the enthusiasm of the crowds.
In readyness for the first trip the no 1 arrived from crossways
with empty coaches a ribbon was then stretched out accross the track,
to be cut before the first passengers made the first trip. |
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No 1 waiting at the station.
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The railway was approx one mile in length and connected Jaywick
Sands to crossways which is on the edge of the tudor estate, so
effectivley ran from Brooklands to Tudor.The Jaywick station was
just about where the market is held today.
There was a station, which was a single wooden platform built on
an embankment, complete with white paling fence and advertising
hoarding. There was a small ticket office but as the train had a
conductor it was hardly ever used. |
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Crossways
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Leaving Jaywick Sands the single track ran for nearly a mile along
the old sea wall, before it desended to the tunnel. The tunnel was
60ft in lengh. Emerging from the tunnel, the track turned away from
the sea, over the marshes crossed a stream and entered Crossways
Here the station had a concrete platform at ground level with a
paling fence and name boards, runround loop and a water tank. A
while after the opening Crossways was fitted with electric lamp
standards. There wasn't any signalling on the line as only one train
ever used it at a time.
The fares for 1936 were very reanable tickets were issued on a round
trip basis 6d(2 1/2p) for adults and 4d for children if you stayed
on. If you wanted to get off it was 9d and 6d for children return.
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| If you want the full story there is a book called Rails to Jaywick
Sands by Ivan Banks. The pictures I've put up come from there as
do most of the notes. |
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