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itself (191/2 miles) and this was purchased by the 
Federated Malay States Government in 1913. With 
the inclusion, in 1912, of the Johore State Railway 
in the Federated Malay States Administration, and 
the extension of the main line through Kedah to 
Alor Star (the Capital) in 1915, and subsequently 
through Perlis to the Siamese frontier at Padang 
Besar in March, 1918, the Malay Peninsula found 
itself with a well equipped railway worked by one 
Administration offering transport facilities from 
end to end of the Peninsula and a service for both 
freight and passenger traffic that is not surpassed 
in any Colony or Protectorate. 
Up to 16th September, 1923, freight traffic 
across the Straits from Johore Bahru on the main- 
land to Singapore was carried by wagon ferries, 
transhipment thus being obviated. Passengers were 
taken over by a passenger launch. A Causeway 
across the Straits has now been partially completed 
and was opened to railway goods traffic on 17th 
September, 1923, and the first through passenger 
train between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore passed 
over the Causeway on 1st October, 1923. The con- 
struction of the Causeway was commenced towards 
the end of 1919, and when completed it will be 60 
feet wide on top carrying two tracks of Railway 
and a 26 feet roadway. Its length will be 3,465 
feet and the average depth of water in which it 
is built is 46 feet at low tide. On the Johore side 
a lock has b^en constructed through which local 
craft may pass. A rolling lift bridge, the only one 
of its type in this part of the world, carries the 
Railway and roadway across the lock. The weight 
of the moving part of the bridge is 570 tons and 
it is operated electrically. 
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