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Old KL Train Station

TIME : 2016/2/17 14:53:40

One of KL's most distinctive colonial buildings, this 1910 train station (replaced as a transit hub by KL Sentral in 2001) is a grand if ageing structure designed by British architect AB Hubback in the Mughal (or Indo-Saracenic) style. The building's walls are white plaster, rows of keyhole and horseshoe arches provide ventilation on each level, and large chatri and onion domes adorn the roof. In 2014 Architectural Digest included it in its list of the 26 most beautiful train stations in the world.

Note that only KTM Komuter trains still stop here. Across from the station is Malayan Railway Administration Building , opened in 1917 and another beautiful Indo-Saracenic piece of architecture.