Kuala Lumpur: Old Railway Station

The old station is an impressive structure in a beautiful Moorish inspired style, while sited right alongside the magnificent station is the old railway headquarters that are an equally lavish expression of oriental architectural grandeur. The march of time and progress though has left the "old" station behind, the citys centre has drifted away and it has a slick new main station KL Sentral, just a mile or so away, where all manner of flashy new metro systems converge with long-distance trains and feed into bus and airport links with the integrated smoothness of an urban transport planners wildest dream. In 2001 the prestige and glory of being the home to mainline trains was taken away by the rise of KL Sentral and the old station today suffers the ignominy of being a commuter stop: anonymous, faceless trains plowing their way in monotonous conformity through the vast suburbs of this city. However its grandeur remains undiminished and despite the onslaught of ambitious planning around it, this throwback remains one of the citys most distinctive and iconic landmarks. It opened in 1910 and converged railway activities into one spot: it built on the site of a previous station and took away the traffic of two other stations in the city. Like many buildings in the city it was the work of AC Hubbock and it developed further his mixture of eastern and western styling, fusing influences this administration-employed architect had discovered on travels into India and Africa. The ...



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