“A nostalgic ride through the rails before the stories—and storytellers—disappear.”
In days gone by, many people made long journeys by train. Some were heading back to boarding school, others to college campuses, and many joined the great balik kampung rush. On crowded trains, passengers often gathered at the open-end balconies of the coaches, smoking or swapping stories.
For a railway child like the author, there was romance in everything about the rails—the people and their quirks, the language, even the games played along the way. His years of service as a railwayman gave him the privilege of collecting first-hand accounts and treasured railway anecdotes.
Before these stories—and the “old goats” who tell them—fade away, this book preserves them for us to enjoy.
