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Hi team!

You will be travelling together to explore a pre-allocated community site to discover the community assets. At the site, you will be prompted to reflect over questions addressed in the Padlet and share your collective team perspective or reflections on what these assets are, through visual documentation on the padlet. Tap on your creative juices! It can be a photo collage, doodle, or a short video.

You are expected to spend 45 mins to an hour at each site. However, if there is a thunderstorm please wait at the nearest shelter for the rain to stop before continuing.

Have fun exploring the community!

Courtesy of SUSS OSLCE

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Site 1 - King Albert Park (Green Corridor, Railway, Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Coast-to-Coast)

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Site 1 - King Albert Park (Green Corridor, Railway, Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Coast-to-Coast)

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Bukit Timah Railway station was owned by Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTM), the main railway operator in Malaysia. It opened on the now dismantled Tank Road mainline in 1903, and was rebuilt on the current Singapore-Johor Bahru KTM Intercity mainline in 1932. This was until the Jurong Line shut down and it was a crossing loop station in the late 1940s until closure. The station was a freight interchange for the currently in-operational Jurong Line from 1965 to the early 1990s.

In 2011, the line closed and a historic land-swap agreement between the Singapore and Malaysia governments occurred. Most of the railway structures, including the tracks, buildings, gates, posts, ballasts and cables were removed, with the railway station building, platform, adjacent tracks and the nearby steel bridge being preserved. It has since become a well-loved local landmark, often frequented by railway, heritage and photography enthusiasts. The railway station has also been gazetted by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) as a conservation building, and is part of Singapore’s Nature Society and URA’s Rail Corridor project.

You should be able to see the railway bridge along Rifle Range road.

https://thesmartlocal.com/read/bukit-timah-rail-corridor-guide/

https://magicaltraveljournal.com/2020/09/05/singapore-old-railway-station-in-bukit-timah/

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Reflect #1 - King Albert Park (Green Corridor, Railway, Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Coast-to-Coast)

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Reflect #1 - King Albert Park (Green Corridor, Railway, Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Coast-to-Coast)

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What assets do you discover at Bukit Timah Railway and its surrounding area that enable it to be preserved and constituted as a conservation site? (Take pictures of the assets, and share your reasons)

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Reflect #2 - King Albert Park (Green Corridor, Railway, Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Coast-to-Coast)

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Reflect #2 - King Albert Park (Green Corridor, Railway, Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Coast-to-Coast)

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This site represents a significant monument, as it served as a transportation hub and railway linkage between Singapore and Malaysia for 79 years. With the advancement of technology, the Kuala Lumpur–Singapore high-speed rail (HSR) – an ambitious 350km rail project, aimed at connecting and reducing the travel time between both countries to 90 minutes – are in discussions of being constructed.

What are your thoughts about the HSR (are you for-or-against it, the feasibility, benefits gained, etc) and how has Singapore’s rail transportation evolved over the years?