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Keretapi Tanah Melayu
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The Malayan Railway
A pictorial history from 1962
Some pictures
courtesy of JA Stanistreet  All
pictures now available
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History of Singapore Railways updated with Industrial Railways. |
I have now spent over 47 years visiting and studying the Malayan Railway, known locally as Keretapi Tanah Melayu, now shortened to KTM. Many changes have taken place in that time and I hope viewers will find at least some of the photographs interesting or useful. There are now over 1000 photographs on the site and I will update it after each visit to the area. This site has now been restructured and relocated, as of 1st January 2005, and the old pages will shortly become unusable.
If
you require further information you can contact me at
MalSoh@hotmail.com
Click here to see a
selection of pictures by Allan Stanistreet.
Click here for a listing of locomotives with names where applicable.
The following
links will take you to details of the various steam locomotives.
| A & B classes | |||
| Burma E and O | C² class | ||
| H class | |||
| L class | |||
| M class | O class | P class | Mallet |
| Q class | |||
| WWII | Sentinel | WD class |
Click
here for an explanation of the current classification
system.
Click on any thumbnail
for a page of larger images with descriptions.
These are the only pictures of my own
which I can find from the 1960's but if you visit my "100
years on" page of my site you will
find the open-air museum exhibits.
There were more pictures on the official KTM site, some of which
go back to the earliest days of the system. These
have
recently been removed but most can be seen here.
Several books have been published on the railway.
Among these are:
50 YEARS OF
RAILWAYS IN MALAYA 1885 - 1935 published by FMSR
THE MALAYAN RAILWAY by
J.A.Stanistreet, published by THE OAKWOOD PRESS.
LOCOMOTIVE CENTENNIAL by Haji Shamsuddin
published by PENERBIT HIDAYAH.
The latter I purchased from the KTM HQ building,
opposite Kuala Lumpur station, in 1985.
A number of quarterly magazines have been produced by FMSR since the 1960s and these contain some historical information.
Burma O class 4-4-0. Several of these were transferred to Malaya in 1914. This picture was taken in India before that part of India became Burma.
| SOME USEFUL LINKS. Links to pictures of Asian Railways The official KTMB web site The unofficial GB enthusiast web site An index of Asian Rail systems Locomotives of the Malayan Railway by Tim Light can now be accessed here. Jason's web site for recent pictures. Jason now has another site where registered members can post their pictures.
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FUTURE PLANS I also have several other railway-related photographic sites, including the current steam scene in the UK, both on the main line in southern England and on several private railways. Click here for the main page.
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I have other pictures on my fotopic sites at G.E.R. and My Spain
Our original Stepping Stones and Railsing sites are now hosted by multimania with increased space. Railsing will now be used for world-wide railways other than those covered by Searail and Stepping Stones and is currently being populated. Sections on Spain, Portugal and Fiji are already active and USA/Canada, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa are in the pipeline.
Construction commenced 1st
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Last updated 29th July 2010.
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