More than just a station master


A walk down memory lane: Ang posing in front of a first generation furnicular train while showing an old picture of the first generation furnicular train. – LIM BENG TATT/The Star

GEORGE TOWN: He has seen it all, from chauffeuring famous world leaders, helping to carry a baby to another train and even running a train to send corpses down Penang Hill.

Former Penang Hill Railway senior station master Ang Sim Boo, 89, has also met the late Queen Elizabeth II, former Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko Shoda, sultans of various states, former prime ministers Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj, Tun Abdul Razak Hussein and many more dignitaries.

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