Jamaica Station in central Queens is the hub of all railroad activities.

Whilst there his task is a simple assignment to investigate the disappearance of Commander John Strangways, the head of MI6 Station J in Kingston, Jamaica, and his secretary.

The MTA Long Island Rail Road ( LIRR ) provides race-day-only passenger service to Belmont Park from Jamaica and Penn Station.

The Lawrence station provides Long Island Rail Road service on the Far Rockaway Branch to Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan and Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn with connections at Jamaica to other parts of Long Island.

This train stopped at the Jamaica Station in Queens.

In addition, about of Floyd Bennett Field along Jamaica Bay was set aside by the city on long-term lease to the United States Coast Guard ( USCG ) in 1936, for the creation of Coast Guard Air Station Brooklyn ( CGAS Brooklyn ).

LIRR electric service began in 1905 on the Atlantic Branch from downtown Brooklyn past Jamaica, and in June 1910 on the branch to Long Island City, part of the main line to Penn Station.

TVMs at Jamaica Station on AirTrain JFK sell a one way ticket with a $ 5 MetroCard to pay the AirTrain fare.

A year later, on 20 November 1811, he received a significant elevation to Flag Lieutenant on HMS Arethusa, the flagship of his uncle, now Vice-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the Jamaica Station.

leftIn the War of 1812 between the United States of America and Britain, the role assigned to the ships of the Jamaica Station was to attack the US coast and ports on the Gulf of Mexico and to destroy their ships and stores.

* July 30, 1938 – near Balaclava Station, Jamaica: five overcrowded cars derail ; 32 killed, 70 injured.

* AirTrain JFK to lower Manhattan would extend the existing Long Island Rail Road line from Jamaica Station to downtown Manhattan via a new 3-mile tunnel under the East River.

:* Station: 3345 Washington Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130

NY & A locomotive # 159 pulls freight through Jamaica ( LIRR station ) | Jamaica Railroad Station.

All LIRR services except the Port Washington Branch pass through Jamaica Station.

The present Jamaica Station was designed by Kenneth M. Murchison and built between 1912 and 1913 as a replacement for two former stations in Jamaica.

The first was the LIRR's original Jamaica Station (“ Old Jamaica ”), built c. 1836 as the terminus of the LIRR.

" Old Jamaica " station at what is now 153rd St ( 0. 4 mile east of the present station ) was razed in 1912 with the grade elimination project, the " Jamaica Improvements "; Jamaica – Beaver Street Station was razed with the grade elimination in 1913.

" These interlockings allowed any line to reach any other line, allowing easy transfer between lines at Jamaica Station, which is the hallmark of current day LIRR service.

The common law constitutes the basis of the legal systems of: England and Wales, Northern Ireland, Ireland, federal law in the United States and the law of individual U. S. states ( except Louisiana ), federal law throughout Canada and the law of the individual provinces and territories ( except Quebec ), Australia ( both federal and individual states ), Kenya, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Pakistan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, The Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Vincent and the Granadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Trinidad and Tobago, and many other generally English-speaking countries or Commonwealth countries ( except Scotland, which is bijuridicial, and Malta ).

In 1689, noted physician and collector Hans Sloane developed a milk chocolate drink in Jamaica which was initially used by apothecaries, but later sold to the Cadbury brothers in 1897.

Attorney General Qoriniasi Bale told the Lau Provincial Council that the government had a team of experts preparing a case to be taken to the United Nations International Seabed Authority, which is based in Jamaica.

From the 1950s onwards London became home to a large number of immigrants, largely from Commonwealth countries such as Jamaica, India, Bangladesh Pakistan, which dramatically changed the face of London, turning it into one of the most diverse cities in Europe.

The Spanish settled in Jamaica in 1509 and held the island against many privateer raids from their main city, now called Spanish Town, which served as capital of Jamaica from its founding in 1534 until 1872.

Following the destruction of Port Royal in the great earthquake of 1692 refugees settled across the bay in Kingston which by 1716 had become the biggest town in Jamaica and became the capital city in 1872.

This settlement served as the capital of both Spanish and English Jamaica from its foundation in 1534 until 1872 after which the capital was moved to Kingston.

In the 1640s many people were attracted to Jamaica, which had a reputation for stunning beauty, not only in reference to the island but also to the natives.

It came into force with the Jamaica Independence Act, 1962 of the United Kingdom Parliament, which gave Jamaica political independence.

Jamaica is a beneficiary of the Lome Conventions, through which the European Union ( EU ) grants trade preferences to selected states in Asia, the Caribbean, and the Pacific, and has played a leading role in the negotiations of the successor agreement in Fiji in 2000.

Caribbean governments have been coming under increased pressure from their electorates to devise ways to override previous rulings by the JCPC such as: Earl Pratt and Ivan Morgan v The Attorney General for Jamaica ( 1993 ) Jeffrey Joseph v The Queen for Barbados ( 2002 ), and Charles Matthews v The State of Trinidad & Tobago ( 2004 ), all of which are Privy Council judgments concerning the death penalty in the Caribbean region.

On his return to London in 1846, he wrote a trilogy on the natural history of Jamaica including A Naturalist's Sojourn in Jamaica ( 1851 ), which was " written in a congenial style and firmly established his reputation both as a naturalist and a writer.

Received green swallow from Jamaica "— an amusing conjunction which Edmund later described as demonstrating only the order of events: the boy had arrived first.

The events surrounding the Jamaica bobsled team in 1988 would lead to the creation of the Disney movie Cool Runnings five years later which was based on Jamaica's 1988 bobsled team.

Usain Bolt of Jamaica dominated the male sprinting events at the Beijing Olympics, in which he broke three world records, allowing him to be the first man to ever accomplish this at a single Olympic game.

For scheduling and advertising purposes some of these branches are further divided into sections such as the case with the Montauk Branch, which is known as the Babylon Branch service in the electrified portion of the line between Jamaica and Babylon, while the diesel service beyond Babylon to Montauk is referred to as the Montauk Branch service.

* The electrified Port Washington Branch, the only one that does not serve Jamaica, branches from the Main Line west of Woodside, but runs alongside it until Winfield Junction, which is east of that station, and heads east and northeast to Port Washington.

It also consists of the Highway 2000, Jamaica which runs through Portmore, Ocho Rios, and Mandeville

From 1953 to 1983 the Jamaica Omnibus Service operated a service, which at its peak consisted of over 600 buses and served an area spanning Spanish Town, Border, Mt.

* June 7 – An earthquake and related tsunami destroy Port Royal, capital of Jamaica and submerges a major part of it – an estimated 2, 000 are immediately killed, 2, 300 injured, and a probable additional 2, 000 die from the diseases which ravage the island in the following months.

He wrote " The Promised Key " the doctrine of Rastafari in Accara, Ghana and many other works which were burnt by the colonial government References :- Daily Gleaner Jamaica, The First Rasta by Helen Lee

His journey by sea to Australia, New Zealand and Fiji took him via Jamaica, where Albert played doubles tennis partnered with a black man, which was unusual at the time and taken locally as a display of equality between races.