SINGAPORE RAILWAY STATION

Before the causeway was built , the railway in Singapore was a pure island railway because it was not connected to Johor Bahru. The construction of the Johor-Singapore Causeway across the Johor Straits began in 1919 and was opened to goods trains on September 17th, 1923 and to passenger trains on October 1st, 1923. Previously passengers and goods train were transferred at Woodlands to a ferry and the connecting train on the Peninsular Malaysia.

The railway station building at Keppel Road was completed in 1932 and contains a very fine Central Waiting Hall with a dome roof. The walls are paneled with typical Malaysian scenes, such as paddy (rice) planting, rubber tapping, shipping activities, road (bullock) transporting, coconut (copra) growing and tin mining. These panels and the original floor blocks were specially manufactured locally, using rubber product, designed successfully to deaden noise. The two long station platforms are capable of accommodating the longest mail trains and are covered by umbrella reinforced concrete roofs.