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
Who is 'The Man in Seat Sixty One'?
ReplyDeleteAre you doing the regular, painstakingly slow Malayan Railway train? Or the very upmarket Orient Express?