Tin & the Confluence · event 8 of 8

1886

The railway to Klang. The line to the port opens, and tin can leave without the river. Kuala Lumpur becomes a railway town as well as a mining one, and the Tamil labour recruited to build and run it settles in Brickfields.

The Tin & the Confluence era

  1. 1857
  2. 1859
  3. 1868
  4. 1870
  5. 1874
  6. 1880
  7. 1881
  8. 1886

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