Bid farewell to the Tanjong Pagar Railway Station

It's the last Sunday before the Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTM) trains cease operations from Tanjong Pagar Railway Station and since bf and I do not have any activity on today, naturally we agreed on paying the railway station a visit. Anyway, this would also be considered my first and last visit there. Initially, I even have thoughts of buying a railway ticket to catch a joyride to Malaysia but tickets were all sold out like hotcakes.  

We entered from the back carpark

See the huge crowds that thronged the food stalls inside the railway station. It's such a long queue that bf queue for nearly a 20 minutes just to buy drinks. 

So crowded inside that I almost can't breathe 

Is it really so nice?

A pity we've already eaten a full lunch at City's Square - The Manhattan Fish Market. Read blog post on the lunch here. Otherwise, we would try the highly popular Ramly burger and Malay Yong Tau Fu. 

Out the canteen we go to the platform of the railway track. 

The last train will leave Singapore at 10.45pm on Thursday 30 June 2011
and driven by the Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar of Johor.

Not long after, we spotted a train approaching. Quickly snap a photo of it but it was only now as I was looking through the photo did I see at the fourth carriage, there seems to be woman trying to climb in? OMG. Why on earth is she climbing in on that side? Spooky~~

- PANORAMA OVERVIEW -

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Inside the Railway Station

A traditional Malay house stood in the middle to promote tourism to Malaysia. 

Large paintings at the interior hall depicting the rustic lives of rural Malaysia and Singapore.

Ticketing counter. 

The arrival and departure platform. 

Trying to take a photo of the train at a different angle. 

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Ouside the Railway Station

This car easily became the next highlight beside the railway station. People start posing standing next to it and little kids are simply having great fun pressing the horn. 

The alphabets "F M S R" stand for Federated Malay States Railways. The four white marble reliefs are works by Italian sculptor Rudolfo Nolli and the represent the four pillars of the Malayan and Singapore economy - Agriculture, Commerce, Transport and Industry.

Even the lamp post looks so nice. 

Outside the train station at the back area.

The clock is still accurate. Notice the circular loop holes that make up the fence? They were used to create a special effect for the two photos below. 

Looking through the loop holes. 

It was empty at this angle. 

KTM - Pooh and Tigger hanging.

Thank you. Terima Kasih. 

The clock that we see so often on the road. 

Nice blurry effect. 

The fate of both the Tanjong Pagar and Bukit Timah Railway station is decided. Both would be gazetted and conserved as a National monument but what about the people who worked there? What about the nice food? Would government preserve the railway track too? In a fast developing city like Singapore, everything is changing so fast, so fast that one say if you went overseas for a few years and come back, you would find it hard to recognize. What remains would just be photographs.  

PS: Some of the photos has been edited to bring out the lomo, old school effect. Thus the long wait for the delivery of this blog post. Imagine lomo-ing the photos one by one and choosing only those that could be published. Hardwork.