02025nam a2200265 i 450000500170000000800410001702000390005804000270009708200220012409000270014610000580017324500480023126400550027930000610033433600210039533700250041633800230044152011250046465000340158965000320162365000430165565000310169894200110172999900190174020260216150554.0260216s2025    my ao  gr     000 0deng d  a9789672639015cRM50.00qpaperback   aPPAK bengcPPAK erda04223a388.47209595 00a388.47209595 bVIN dG1 aVincent, L. A., d1950- eauthor. q(Louis Anthony), 10aTales From Malayan Rails / cL. A. Vincent  1aRawang, Selangor : bLouis Anthony Vincent, c2025  aviii, 436 pages : billustrations, photographs ;c20 cm   atext2rdacontent  aunmediated2rdamedia  avolume2rdacarrier  aIn days gone by, many would have made long-distance rail travels. Some were going back to boarding schools, other to collage campuses and some were part of the crazy balek kampong rides. In crowded trains, we just stood at the coaches open-end balconies, smoking or telling tales.

My earliest train-trip memory was just at KL station, sitting in the coach, wondering where everyone was bound for when the coach window decided to drop on my hand! As the years went by, I accumulated more and more railway memories.

For a railway child, there was romance in all-things railway: the people and their behaviour, the language and the games played. Along the way, many railways anecdotes dropped onto my lap. Not many know that our passenger trains had some petty glamorous names. There was the Sappo Express, PnO Mail, Northen Star, Southern Cross, Tren Sombong and Sodthy Express. A lively discussion will ensue when asked where the best food cam from on train travels. Was it from the breakdown train's kitchen ot the mail train's buffet car? And there were scores of other railway stories from my years as a railway-man.10aRailroadszMalaysia xHistory20aRailroad travel zMalaysia 20aRailroads, Local and light zMalaysia 20aTransportation zMalaysia   2ddccB  c203137d203137