Among Mr Ragavan's main tasks as station master was ensuring only one train was utilising the old railway line at any one point, as the line from Woodlands to Tanjong Pagar was a single-track route.Train conductors had to hold a token for each sector of the railway line, and when entering a new sector they would deposit their"old" token on a token pole and pick up a new one from the station master's outstretched arm before they could move off.
"I was doing my PSLE homework here actually," he said, pointing to an area in the former station building.
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