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1916 timetable of services. The Loi pour l'établissement d'un Chemin de Fer entre la Ville de St.-Hélier et Gorey was approved on 16 March 1871 (confirmed by Order in Council 19 March 1872), with 68 articles of the projet in the name of the Jersey Eastern Railway Company Limited.
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The face of St Helier as sculpted on the 1978 monument La Croix de la Reine in St Helier. Saint Helier Harbour is named after Helier (or Helerius), a 6th-century ascetic hermit from Belgium. The traditional date of his martyrdom is AD 555. His feast day, marked by an annual municipal and ecumenical pilgrimage to the Hermitage, is on 16 July.
The HD1 ship and the Commodore Clipper (Condor Ferries).. HD Ferries was a fast catamaran Channel Islands ferry service between Jersey, Guernsey and Brittany.HD Ferries had daily departures (six crossings per day; average crossing time per leg of just one hour) from the port of Saint Helier (Jersey) to St Peter Port (Guernsey) and then to St Malo.
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.
Saint Thomas Church's spire is prominent in Saint Helier skyline. Today, Jersey is under the diocese of Portsmouth. There are eight Catholic churches on the island. [5] However, there is a shortage of priests and workers and the Catholic Church there has therefore had to close two chapels [6] and sell some of its churches. [7] [8]
A 2005 residential and commercial development in St. Helier incorporates a plaque and light installation marking the boundary of La Vingtaine de la Ville The Historic Town Centre of St Helier is in the vigntaine
Saint Aubin The Parish Hall of St. Brelade is situated in St. Aubin. St. Aubin (Jèrriais: Saint Aubîn) is a town and port in La Vingtaine du Coin, St. Brelade in Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands. It is located on the western end of St. Aubin's Bay, on the south coast of the island, opening out into the Gulf of Saint-Malo.