Keretapi terakhir dari Tanjong Pagar

ebiet

Ada tak forumers kat cni yang mencuba naik train dari Tanjong Pagar sebelum stesen tu diserahkan kepada Singapura pada 1 July ni.Takde ahli2 forumers sejarah kat cni buat gathering untuk ke tanjong Pagar utk kali terakhir.

"All good things must come to an end, as the saying goes, and come to anend will be an era and to mark this end, a last train would be beleaving Tanjong Pagar on the 30th of June. This train would be specialas it would be driven by none other than HRH Sultan Ibrahim Ismail ofJohor"

ebiet

Aku kutip dari satu Sg blog yg agak menarik untuk dibaca..

The last E&O Express to depart from Tanjong Pagar

Sunday the 5th of June 2011 will probably be remembered for what has been described as the worst flooding in 25 years in Singapore, triggered by two bouts of intense rainfall, one at mid morning which had some 65 mm of rain fall in a half an hour period. It was a morning that I found myself up at the break of day, greeted not by the bright Sunday I had hoped for, but by the greyness of the rain washed morning. The intensity of the early morning downpour and the resulting rising waters of the Bukit Timah Canal, wasn’t of course what this post is all about, but an event that, I would certainly have remembered the 5th of June 2011 for – the final departure of the luxury Eastern and Oriental Express train service from Tanjong Pagar Railway Station.

With the departure of the train at approximately 11.30 am from Tanjong Pagar and its subsequent 15 minute passage to Bukit Timah Station and another 15 minute passage to Woodlands, northbound E&O Express passengers would have for the last time, be given the treat of a passage through a Singapore that is representative of the Singapore when Tanjong Pagar Railway station was built in 1932, a softer and gentler Singapore that after the 1st of July, may disappear as the northbound E&O Express did on that stormy morning. Perhaps it was fitting that it was not to the smile of the sunshine that I had hoped for, but to the tears from the Heavens that the E&O train made this final push up north … tears perhaps for an end to of the Romance of the railway through Singapore.

bangcak

sold!!
goodbye tanjong pagar

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Indahnya bumi kita , ini, warisanberkurun lamanya, Mengalir ke tangan yang lain...

.....next offer,
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ushioz

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/s ... iew/1162591/1/.html

Checks show the company having incurred an average monthly revenue loss of 1.8 million ringgit as a result of a decline of between 20 and 30 percent of passengers using train services to Singapore.

KTMB believes most travellers have opted to take express buses and some by air, as they feel the Woodlands Station is not quite convenient for travellers from Malaysia

kerugian bagi KTMB.