Check in at the railway station

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Have you taken the train lately? No, not the MRT, I mean the real train, run by Keratapi Tanah Melayu (KTM), that terminates at the Tanjong Pagar Railway Station. Laokokok examines the history of the railway station and discovers that it once housed a hotel!

Laokokok’s research shows us that the hotel was quite a reputable one:

OK, the actual name now is probably just Tanjong Pagar Railway Station ( 丹戎巴葛火车总站). So in the past it was called Singapore Railway Station & Hotel. But why “& Hotel”? Is there really a hotel at the station? I’m not too sure if the hotel still in operation now? It was known to have 34 rooms in this Station Hotel and it was one of the 3 station hotels in Malayan Railway stations. The other 2 were at Kuala Lumpur and Ipoh. Our Singapore’s Station Hotel manager, Mr.Lim Jit Chin, received a Guiness Book of Record for the second-longest serving hotel manager in the world. This Station Hotel’s services were known to be equal that of Raffles Hotel then.

Quite a ways up the train line, there are also station hotels located at Kuala Lumpur and Ipoh. I remember visiting the hotel at the Ipoh Train Station, which still had the grill-gate elevator that took you up to the third floor where the lobby and rooms were. Uncover the history of the former Singapore Railway Station & Hotel at Times of My Life.