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It was a hundred years ago on this very day, the 17th of September 1923, that the Causeway first came into use, when a cargo train made the crossing on tracks laid temporarily on the completed half of rubble mound which had been intended for its roadway. A train crossing the partially completed Causeway in…
OVER a century ago there was a proposal to build a reservoir, which would have flooded a large area of Jalan Kebun Bunga and submerged the whole of Penang Botanic Gardens.