KTM Track removal begins. Pictures 2

Demolition workers began cutting up the steel rails and digging up 

the railway sleepers at the Bukit Timah KTM railway station.

The contractors expect to remove about 1km of the steel rails each day, but it will take longer to excavate the gravel - nearly 1m deep in some areas - and remove the sleepers and tracks.

Demolition workers began cutting up the steel rails and digging up 

the railway sleepers at the Bukit Timah KTM railway station.

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A group of students took seconds off their trek to plank 

at Bukit Timah Railway Station. -- PHOTO: NG SOR LUAN

Butterfly-catchers out and about near the Rail Mall along Upper 

Bukit Timah Road on the first Saturday the rails were open to visitors. 

A group of students trek in the direction of Bukit Timah Hill

 (background) along Upper Bukit Timah Road. 

The crowd descended on Bukit Timah Railway Station 

the first Saturday it was open to the public for treks. 

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A mother sits her young daughter on the railway tracks at Bukit Timah 

Railway Station, handing her bits of gravel to explore with.

A jogger runs past 'pink lalangs' near to Bukit Merah in the evening.