Overview
Tanjong Pagar railway Station, also known as Keppel Road Railway Station or Singapore railway station, was a railway terminal owned by Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTM), the main railway operator in Malaysia.
On 24 May 2010, an agreement between the governments of Singapore and Malaysia was reached to permanently cease operations into and from the station from 01 July 2011.
The Tanjong Pagar railway station was opened on 02 May 1932 by then Governor of Singapore, Sir Cecil Clementi, and is then, a fine example of Modern Architecture with Neo-Classical and Art-Deco influences. Four marble reliefs right outside the entrance are allegories of Agriculture, Industry, Commerce and Transport, representing the source of wealth for both Singapore and Malaysia. The waiting hall has a barrel vault roof and the wall panels bear paintings of Malayan scenes: rice planting, rubber tapping, shipping activities, bullock cart transport, copra growing and tin mining.
The Bukit Timah railway station followed the style of the traditional small town stations that were common in the United Kingdom and Malaya. It is an open-sided single-storey brick building that front the main railway line with an open platform. Its cosy country cottage appearance has made it an endearing local landmark. The station acts as a place where the trains have to exchange key tokens with the stationmaster to give them the right authority to enter into the next sector of track. The key token is therefore a symbolic representation of a train's authority to pass through a sector.
This set of stamps allows us to have an appreciation of the transportation history of Singapore.













