THE END OF THE RAILROAD IN SINGAPORE: A PHOTO ESSAY

Claire Leow

Chapter 4 in Public Space in Urban Asia, 2014, pp 64-79 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: The end of the railway in Singapore came after 108 years of operation, a vestige of the British Empire, a very specific space in a very different time. The trains were charging first-class passengers 56 cents, according to The Straits Times (2 January 1903), to leave the original station on Tank Road to Kranji. The Tank Road station closed when the Tanjong Pagar Railway Station opened in 1932, the southernmost station of the railway line, after the agreement of the Railway Deviation of 1932. Governor Sir Cecil Clementi officiated at the opening of the station…

Keywords: Public Space; Cities; Human Development; Spatial Justice; Sociology; Illegal Architecture; Heritage; Singapore; Kuala Lumpur; Taiwan; Hong Kong; Jakarta; Chongqing; China; POPs; Happiness; Emerging Economies; Asia; Southeast Asia; Urbanism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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