Sunday, October 3, 2010

Remnants of old Singapore

Bukit Timah Railway Station
Bukit Timah Railway Station
Bukit Timah Railway Station
Kampung Buangkok
Kampung Buangkok
Kampung Buangkok
Kampung Buangkok
Haw Paw Villa
Haw Paw Villa
Haw Paw Villa

With all the recent additions to the Singapore skyline, it seems as if we're in a perpetual state of reinvention -- which leads people to believe that nothing in the city is untouched by redevelopment. Look hard enough, though, and you'll find a few places that proudly refuse to get with the program.

Bukit Timah Railway Station

Now here?s a true relic of Malayan Singapore.

Constructed in 1932, the Bukit Timah Railway Station was one of many stops along the Federated Malayan Railway that connected the island to the rest of mainland Southeast Asia.

It remains on Malaysian soil to this day, despite the passage of 78 years and the founding of an independent Singapore.

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