This is the latest addition to Key Publishing’s World Railways Series, covering the railways of Singapore and Malaysia. Both countries have experienced considerable change in recent decades, with Singapore’s expansion into a major economic powerhouse having seen its rail network expand rapidly. Meanwhile Malaysia’s rail network has been extensively modernised and large parts of it electrified.
The first half of the book looks at the railways of Singapore, starting with the Singapore to Woodlands Railway linking the island with Malaysia. The next two chapters cover the city’s Mass Rapid Transit network, followed by its guideways and monorails. There are then chapters on Malaysia, including the East and West Coast lines, the railways of the Greater Kuala Lumpur area, and the Saban State Railway on the island of Borneo on which the author travelled on a steam-hauled excursion train in 2004, two years before the network was modernised.
Photographs are presented in two-per-page format, with captions accompanying each image. 96 pages.