In the second part of his post, Jerome writes about some of the landmarks found along the railway line on the Bukit Timah corridor – places such as The (Standard) Chartered Bank, Trinity Theological College, the Bukit Timah Fire Station, and one of the Black Truss Bridges.
The black truss bridge is a landmark most of us would have seen while travelling through the area:
Crossing back to the other side of the road to the Fuyong Estate area where Rail Mall is, we were able to get on the side where the tracks crosses Upper Bukit Timah Road over the first of the two black truss bridges that I have somehow always identified the area with, pausing again for some photographs of the bridge. What is nice about the bridge is the arched pedestrian passageway through the concrete supports of the bridge on the footpath below. Getting a first glimpse of the bridge – I was able to appreciate the beauty of the riveted steel structure that has given the area its distinct flavour for close to eight decades. What I was also able to appreciate was the amount of effort that it would take to maintain the bridge if it was to be conserved once the railway has no use for it when the terminal station is moved from Tanjong Pagar to Woodlands – something that perhaps might prove prohibitive in any considerations taken be the authorities for their preservation – something that many of us would like to see.
One of the other landmarks mentioned contains an architectural feature that pays tribute to its original location, while another landmark bears the old coat of arms of Singapore. Read about them in Jerome’s post The second part of the walk down the Bukit Timah corridor: The mysteries around Hillview
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