On to butterworth

A very nice day in kuala lumpur.

Awaiting the 'number 22' 10pm train to butterworth, which has been delayed until 1030. We are due to arrive 545 Sunday morning.

Earth hour so kuala lumpur station cloaked in darkness.




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Location:Kuala lumpur

Night train to kuala lumpur

We are on the 1030 overnight train from Singapore tanjong pagar station to kuala lumpur's Sentral station.

This year is the last time that trains depart from the art deco station, before it is exchanged for a new station in woodlands on the north of Singapore.




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Location:Keppel Rd,,Singapore

Singapore to Bangkok #1

We are planning to go from Singapore to Bangkok by train during the children's half term holiday at the end of March.

2011 will be the last time, apparently, that trains from Singapore will depart from the art deco Tanjong Pagar site (owned and operated by Malaysia's railway company KTM)

All the tickets are booked, and paid for (with a clever trick learnt from The Man in Seat Sixty One).

The route is Singapore overnight on the sleeper, a day in Kuala Lumpur, then overnight to Butterworth, taking the ferry to Penang for a couple of days by the beach (bound to rain), then continuing by train 36 from Butterworth to Bangkok.

aahhh.. I can almost taste the sharp diesel bite of the air as the train scuttles through oil palm and rubber plantations, and the steady rocking of the train....

More to come nearer the day..


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Location:Singapore