Bukit Timah railway station
Being there
Opened in 1932, this is a much smaller station than the one at Tanjong Pagar, and the only other extant railway station in Singapore. Passenger services at this station ceased after Singapore's expulsion from Malaysia, as customs and immigration were set up at Tanjong Pagar, but it continued to function as a passing loop station, where train drivers would exchange tokens with the station master, until the railway was shut down in 2011. The station has been restored and is today part of the Rail Corridor.
The story
Bukit Timah railway station is a former railway station and crossing loop in Bukit Timah, in the westernmost part of the Central Region of Singapore.
Opened on the dismantled Tank Road mainline in 1903, it was rebuilt on the current Singapore–Johor Bahru KTM Intercity mainline in 1932, until the Jurong line shut down and it became a crossing loop station in the late 1940s until closure.
The station was a freight interchange for the now defunct Jurong line from 1965 to the early 1990s. The station closed in 2011, and it is now a conserved recreational building and museum that is part of the Rail Corridor.