Peter Chan blogs about his memories of the Tanjong Pagar railway in the late 1950s and early 1960s – while much has been written about the recently-closed station, Peter writes about the rest of the railway yard:
Peter writes:
Much has been said of the Tanjong Pagar passenger hall terminal building at Keppel Road but little mention is spoken of the ancillary infrastructures and buildings which provided much of the support and maintenance services to the railway service. How big was the land-bank?
In the early 1960s I accompanied my mother to the St Theresa Church. Whilst my mother found quiet solitude in the church, I decided there was another better place for me at the Kg. Bharu road bridge. I watched the “chu-chu trains” come and go under the road-bridge. Some were very long, some very short in reference to the number of coaches or good-wagons pulled by a locomotive.
Check out his full post in Good Morning Yesterday.
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