The Green Corridor walk along Bukit Timah [19 Jun]
Sunday, June 19, 8am – 11am, Old Holland Road to Hindhede Road.
Join us for this leisure walk along the railway from Old Holland Road to Bukit Timah Railway Station to Hindhede Road (slightly over 3km). Jerome Lim, the author of the excellent and popular blog, The Long and Winding Road, will lead this walk. Check out his heritage stories and photos at http://thelongnwindingroad.wordpress.com/.
You would see these along the way:
– Road bridge over railway line at Old Holland Road
– Culvert
– Jurong Line branch-off
– Bukit Timah Station
– Truss Bridge
– Girder Bridge
Meeting Time: 8am
Meeting point: Ulu Pandan Road Bus Stop ID 12039 (Opposite Pandan Valley Condo). See map at http://gothere.sg/maps#q:bus%20stop%2012039.
Public transport: Bus numbers 75, 165 (if coming from direction of Holland Road stop at Bus Stop 12031 – Pandan Valley Condo)
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The Green Corridor walk along Bukit Timah [11 Jun]
Saturday, June 11, 8am – 10am, Bukit Timah Railway Station to Old Holland Road.
Join us for this leisure walk along the railway from Bukit Timah Railway Station to Old Holland Road. Ms Margie Hall from the Nature Society (Singapore) will lead this walk.
We would pass by the Bukit Timah Railway Station, which has been gazetted as a conserved building on 27 May 2011. Built in the 1930s, the Bukit Timah Station is an endearing local landmark and a key building of our railway history. We would also pass by an area of significant secondary growth forest, refer to as Clementi Woodlands.
Meeting time: 8am
Meeting point: Outside Cold Storage, McDonald’s Place at King Albert Park (see map at http://gothere.sg/maps#q:king%20albert%20park%20mcdonalds).
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A walk on the wild side
By Jerome Lim, 15 May 2011.
I took a walk into a world where there might not have been one, where gold, crimson and blue tinged fairies dance a flight of joy, a joy that’s echoed in the singing of songs of joy that eludes ears made weary by the cacophony of the grey world we have found ourselves in. It is a world that seeks to be found in the midst of the cold grey world we find around us, a world that we may soon lose with the lost of the reasons for its being. The world I speak of is none other than the Green Corridor that has existed solely because of the railway which has allowed a green and seemingly distant world to exist next to the concrete world that we have created in our island.
