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A model of this Causeway is on view in the 
Exhibition. 
Meanwhile, sight had not been lost of opport- 
unities for linking up coast towns and for opening 
feeder lines. As far back as 1893, the Port of 
Teluk Anson in Perak was linked up to the main 
line at Tapah Road, serving an important rubber 
growing and tin mining centre. The Kinta Valley — 
the most important tin mining district in the 
world — was further tapped by the construction of 
a line from Ipoh (Perak) to Tronoh (16 miles) 
opened in 1905. In Selangor in the same year a 
branch line was opened to serve the Railway Work- 
shops, on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, and the 
quarries at Batu Caves, where there are unlimited 
supplies of road metal. This also, is a rubber 
growing district. Tin mines at Ampang near Kuala 
Lumpur were supplied with a line constructed in 
1914. In the following year, an important branch 
line was opened for traffic from the Malayan 
Collieries at Batu Arang joining the main line at 
Kuang — 7 miles away. This branch has since been 
extended for 7 miles towards the West coast. Port 
Swettenham on the West coast 5 miles beyond 
Klang, to which point the first Selangor line was 
built in 1886, was connected up in January, 1899, 
and shipping has grown rapidly, since Port Swet- 
tenham offered facilities which the older port of 
Klang, served only by river could never offer. Ships 
of the most prominent freight lines trading to the 
East can be seen here at any time discharging 
machinery, railway material, foodstuffs, and quanti- 
ties of other articles required for a rapidly developing 
country, or loading cases of rubber or tin ore, the 
two principal exports from this Peninsula. 
