Bukit Timah Railway Station

All pictures taken by:

Panasonic GF1 m4/3 Camera, Olympus 9-18mm f4-5.6, Panasonic 20mm f1.7, Panasonic 14-45 f3.5-5.6

Some Stylo Milo Self Portrait...Ha Ha

Our love is like this track... there's no end

The Bukit Timah Railway Station was opened in 1915 as part of the Singapore-Kranji Railway, also known as the Singapore Government Railway. Constructed between 1900 and 1902, the line ran from the terminal at Tank Road towards Woodlands via Cuppage Road, Newton Circus, Cluny Road (where Adam Flyover is today) and finally to Bukit Timah, before proceeding to Kranji and Woodlands where it continued to Malaysia via the former Federated Malay States Railway. 

Before the causeway was opened in 1923, passengers had to take a ferry across the Straits of Johor to continue their train ride. In 1918, the government of the Federated Malay States purchased all the properties and lands of Singapore Railway for $4,136,000 and was renamed as the Federated Malay States Railway. Today the Malayan Railway is known as Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad, a Malaysian corporation wholly-owned by the Malaysian Government.

Source:http://heritagetrails.sg/content/199/Bukit_Timah_Railway_Station.html

I will survive!

Lines of Communication

When the ends meet

Crossing over to the other side...

Solid Strength

Meeting Point

Steel that connects!

The station is located not to far down the main road from King Albert Park’s MacDonald’s. There you’ll be able to find the sign leading down the small road to the station. For an even clearer landmark, look for the steel truss bridge that is frankly quite unmissable while traveling on the road. From there its a small uphill hike into the railway station compound itself.

Source: http://www.ckphoto.net/blog/2011/07/getting-to-the-bukit-timah-railway-station

I missed the train...now I have to walk!

"Honey, I'm melting!"

Leading to the foreign land

Yes, it's going to be history soon...

With effect from 1 July 2011, the Bukit Timah Railway Station went down the trail of Singapore and Malaysian history. Both governments have decided that train services between Woodlands Railway Station and Tanjong Pagar Railway Station are to cease and instead a more efficient new station will be located at Woodlands to allow for better efficiency. This is another living piece of the past you should visit if you have not done so before this historic place is being redeveloped or urbanised.