Showing posts with label The Railway Quarters Tanjung Aru. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Railway Quarters Tanjung Aru. Show all posts

Sunday, April 20, 2008

This morning I took a visit around the Railway Quarters at Tanjung Aru to walk down memory lane. It was indeed very quiet in this place. Eerie quiet. It seems this place knows it will soon turn out to become the next bustling place in the city of Kota Kinabalu when the Government develop it as the Transportation Centre like KL Sentral.

This row of quarters facing the Kepayan Road, all too quiet...


























The Railway Clubhouse, where the workers used to gather for billiard games and social activities during the colonial days...















This is the local grocery store...



Hardly any activities











This is the quarters where I was born 56 years ago.










I took time to drive around this area. I drove behind the workshop area and lo... interesting pictures. Look at these trains. There are just like what they were when we left this place in 1965. To think that we have been independent for 44 years and these things remained as if time stood still...