My trishaw man didn't turn up today so I took the train to the Harbour where you pick up the cable car for Sentosa Island (Avery touristy place with fake beaches). I took a number of pictures of the area. The gardens are brilliantly green and tropical and the buildings are a marvel to see they are of polished granite and very grand in a modern but pleasing style. Compared to Singapore we are just country hicks. Every thing that they have built in recent time is so grand and clean and efficient.

I had no ideas that they have built the rail on at least two levels under the ground. Trains come and go every few minutes. its hard to describe the efficency and the precision in which they are run. There are only a few seats running aling the walls so most must stand hanging onto the rail overhead. Every thing is reasonably close so you don't seem to stand for long before reaching your destination. I think the trains are electric. They get a speed up very quickly and are very smooth running. The carriages lead one into another, i.e. there are no doors between the carriages so you can see through to both ends if it is not crowded.

They seem to have 4 carrages for each train with 4 door on each side. So there are sixteen door through which you can enter the train at any given time it stopps at the station. At one particular station you can exit either side of the train depending on which train you need to transfer. There is always a worning given "to mind the gap but it is only a matter of maybe 2 inches wide. "

At the underground stations there is a double set of doors. A door that allows you to exit the platform and a door of the train. When the train stops it stops right were the door that gives you access to the platform is. Pretty clever don't you think. The train doesn't get a wobble up like ours do. Just as well because it seems to fit quite snuggly into the underground tunnels they travel in. When the train emerges from the underground system to go to the airport for instance, it runs on tracks that are elevated above the roads like you see in American films.