Singapore Railways
This site has been created as an overflow for my Malayan Railways site and should be used in conjunction with it. For those not familiar with the region Singapore is an island state, roughly the size and shape of the Isle of Wight, situated at the southern tip of the Malay peninsular. The metre-gauge Malayan Railway (Keretapi Tanah Melayu) enters Singapore via the Johore Causeway at Woodlands, where the immigration and customs facilities are now located, and runs across the centre of the island, via Bukit Timah, to a terminus at Tanjong Pagar, adjacent to the container terminal on the south-western edge of the city. At Bukit Timah there is a passing loop, and it was also a junction for a freight only branch to Jurong, which closed in the mid 1990s. Steam finished on the island in 1972 and most of the early diesels have now gone also. Click here for a history of Singapore Railways. In the mid 1980's a Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system was commenced and is still expanding. It runs underground in the city but on the surface or elevated throughout the rest of the island. The trains are driverless 6-car electric sets but there are also some diesel shunters and Bo-Bo units for permanent way work. There are monorail systems (for pleasure purposes) on Sentosa Island and at the Jurong Bird Park. On the industrial front there was a harbour railway at Loyang, an admiralty railway from Woodlands to Sembawang, several sidings to military depots, private sidings with a diesel shunter in Jurong and an extensive system in the Port of Singapore, which had its own fleet of steam, and later diesel, shunters. One of the dry docks in Singapore also boasted a steam crane on broad gauge tracks, this is now preserved on Sentosa Island in the Maritime Museum. I have a few photographs from all these locations and some can be accessed via the thumbnails below. Many others are already included in the Malayan Railway site.
Loyang ->
Jurong ->
Port of Singapore ->
Steam crane at
work->
Sentosa monorail
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More pictures can be found here.
The following links will take you to pages containing more than 650 photographs taken on the railways of West Malaysia (formerly Malaya) and Singapore between 1962 and 2003, the majority between 1975 and 1977 when my back garden overlooked the line from Bukit Timah to Tanjong Pagar and I was working in the port areas of Loyang, Jurong and Singapore.
A handful of pictures taken between 1962-1965, includes 2 steam on the causeway.
Pictures taken between 1972-1977 in Singapore and Malaysia, includes dumped and preserved steam.
From my back garden: Pictures taken in 1975 in Singapore. + Pictures taken in 1976 in Singapore.
Pictures taken from my garden and at Tanjong Pagar, April-June 1977.
Pictures taken from my garden, at Bukit Timah and Tanjong Pagar, July and August 1977.
Pictures taken between Singapore and Penang in 1985, includes the KTM Centenary celebrations.
A brief visit to Singapore station area on 4th February 2003, plus a surprise.
Page created 30th April 2002.
Updated 29th December 2004.
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