A railway between Singapore and Kranji? You mean Kranji was a different place altogether? Not quite – the Singapore-Kranji Railway refers to the first railway service in Singapore, which was the precursor to the KTM in Malaysia. Peter, a guest blogger on Good Morning Yesterday explores the history of this railway, and even extrapolates to route of this old railway.
Though most people or historians would have spoken about the route between Tanjung Pagar to Tank Road and Orchard Road to Newton, there was certainly a lack of information between Newton and Woodlands. In the past one year, my friend Bobby Teoh and I spent our spare time working the ground with cadastral maps, different surveying techniques and cameras to gather more evidences of what we believed was the original route. Bobby Teoh himself spent several weeks in Kuala Lumpur reviewing through old KTM files and photos abandoned at a railway yard in Klang. Our survey, analysis and conclusions show that the original routing included the following landmarks:
Where are the landmarks? You’ll have to read Chun See’s blog to find out!
Tags: Singapore Kranji Railway, Federated Malay States Railway, Keretapi Tanah Malaysia
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