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Spooner Road Flats
Description:	The former quarters for KTM staffs' families are now refreshed for other families' use. Car park now costs $0.50 for 30 minutes or $4 per night using coupons. http://www.sla.gov.sg/htm/new/landMar12/article2.html ---------- 13 May 2014
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Date:	13.05.2014 19:53
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ReiSasukeKTMB
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Join Date: 22.08.2010
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It is very very different from Ipoh's Spooneer Road which Ipoh's Spooneer Road Railway Quarters most of them are abandoned and become secondary jungles.

14.05.2014 17:55

STN
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Join Date: 11.05.2006
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what coincidence.

There are Spooner Road in both Singapore and Ipoh, and both are located quite close to the KTM railway line, as well as having the railway quarters located at both eponymous locations. So, any idea who Spooner is and what are his contributions and legacy to FMSR (the predecessor of KTM) ?

14.05.2014 22:22

ReiSasukeKTMB
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Join Date: 22.08.2010
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For your information my mate, Spooner was THE FIRST EVER FEDERATED MALAY STATE RAILWAYS (FMSR) GENERAL MANAGER at 1901!!! His real name was General Charles Edwin Spooner and served as The First FMSR General Manager from 1901 to 1909.

Some useful info about CE Spooner can we procure from here :->

http://www.thehubbacks.org/2011/06/charles-edwin-spooner-arthur-hubbacks.html

14.05.2014 23:54