The romantic era of rail travel ended when people no longer considered getting there an experience in itself. It's about going further and getting there faster. New highways are being built at the same rate they are tearing down railway stations to make way for a spanking new-age station to cater for the new generation of trains powered by electric.
The rail men, and women, are slowly being phased out by a new batch of men and women trained to handle a new era of rail travel.
This blog is created to document the elements of yesterday's rail travel that are still available today. Some of these are in sad state of affair but at least there are still there for me to preserve them in pictures. I hope to document as many small town train stations as possible before they are gone forever. Some of these buildings, e.g Taiping, have existed close to a century. I know these are not pretty sights to look at. But to me, they represent a golden past that is slowly being replaced by something designed to accommodate the new lifestyle of the future.
People are not keen to travel by rail anymore. Why should they when every one can afford a car. KTMB announced over the radio today that running a railway business is a losing endeavour. Last year they lost RM11 million. Expect them to lose even more money this year.
