The first trial service ran on 28 September, and on the following day a train carrying 300 invited guests departed from Saint Helier.

[1] 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.

[2] 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.

[1] In 1936 the Jersey Railway closed to passengers after a devastating fire at Saint Aubin's train shed destroyed most of the company's rolling stock.

The railways did not carry passengers, but were used to transport equipment and building materials as the occupying forces built fortifications using slave labour.