The Train Stations at Palekbang and Pasir Mas

It was Raya morning and I was talking to my mother-in-law. I call her Chek Daddy. She is called Yah in her village. Her name is Mariah @ Shamsiah bt Ahmad, a local from Kampung Gajah Mati village in Kota Bharu.

Chek was born in 1937. I asked Chek about train travels before the Sultan Ismail bridge was built. This is her story. According to Chek, she had travelled on the train from Palekbang to Butterworth (now Seberang Perai) via Siam. Palekbang had a big train station. Pasir Mas also had a big train station. Tumpat was where the trains were stored and repaired. Trains from Tumpat came down to Palekbang to pick up passengers, and moved onward to Pasir Mas. From Pasir Mas, the train lines split into 2, one went towards Tanah Merah and onward to Seberang Prai. Another train line went up north to Siam and came back down to Seberang Perai.

I remember writing the biography for Dr Ali Othman Merican in Biography of the Early Malay Doctors 1900-1957 Malaya and Singapore. In his biography, I mentioned that he took a train from Butterworth to Palekbang via Siam. It was a 2-day journey.

According to Chek, Palekbang train station has ceased to exist today. I passed by the site and saw remnants of its columns standing among the overgrowth. Chek and Affandi said that the train line from Tanah Merah to Butterworth has ceased to exist. They also said that the train line from Pasir Mas to Siam and back down to Butterworth has ceased to exist.

I have no further information of train travels within Kelantan and Malaya before 1969.

Looking for Dr Khalid Hassan (Pasir Mas)

"Medical students (often senior ones) dominated the presidency and other positions for the greater part of the first 3 to 4 decades. Some of them included Mahmud Merican, Toh Ban Hock, John Ramanathan, Khalid Hassan, Maurice Choo, K Prabhakaran, Christie Tan, Peter Lee, Tan Chi Chiu, Eugene Sim, Fidah Alsagoff, Lee Hung Ming, James Hui, Lee Chiern Earn, Ruban Poopalalingam, and Shanker Pasupathy." 

Source: HP Lee. King Edward VII Hall of Residence. Annals Academy of Medicine, 160C. July 2005, Vol. 34 No. 6.

Dr Khalid Hassan is from a village in Pasir Mas, Kelantan, Malaysia.

Dr Khalid Hassan had the following academic and professional qualifications:
MBBS (S'pore), MRCP (UK), MRCPath, DCP (Lond), DTM & H (B'kok)

Dr Khalid Hassan had served at three places (not in order):

1. Dr Khalid Hassan, MBBS (S'pore), MRCP (UK), MRCPath, DCP (Lond), DTM & H (B'kok), Head, Department of Haematology, Institute for Medical Research, Jalan Pahang, 50588 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2. Dr Khalid Hassan, Ampang Puteri Specialist Hospital Suite 1-2, KL, Malaysia. Tel: +60-3-4270-2500. Specialisation: Haematology
3. Dr Khalid Hassan, MRCP(UK) FRCP(Lond.) FRCPATH, Pakar Haematologi, PUSRAWI

There is no further update on Dr Khalid Hassan at the three places where he had served (last search on 21 January 2020).

Requests:

1. There is a request from Singapore from a colleague of Dr Khalid Hassan who wishes to meet with him. [2011]
2. There is a second request from his classmate who wanted to contact him. [2020]

Useful links:

1. Mohd Azman bin Che Soh (Pasir Mas / Johor). He was Dr Khalid Hassan's patient in 1970s. Facebook

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Feedback:

According to his son, his father is practising at Grimsby in England.

Found on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/khalid-hassan-25263823/?originalSubdomain=uk

Dr Khalid Hassan

Khalid Hassan

Consultant Haematologist

Medical Consultants (UK) Ltd

Greater Reading Area

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I'm uncertain whether this is also him?

This is another link on Conflict of Interest Register:

https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/Downloads/pdf/ConflictOfInterestRegister1920.pdf.pdf (accessed 19 July 2021)

Timestamp: 12/11/2019 15:01 

Your name: Khalid Hasan

Role: Consultant Anaesthetist/Head of Academy

Interests to declare: Yes

Declaration 1: type of interest: Outside employment

Declaration 1: dates: on going

Declaration 1: org/company: K&T Therapy

Declaration 1: description: Deliver healthcare to NHS and private

Declaration 1: mitigation: No impact

Declaration 2: type of interest: Outside employment

Declaration 2: dates: ongoing

Declaration 2: org/company: Private practice

Declaration 2: description: I do private practise at BMI Priory and Edgbaston Hospitals.

Declaration 2: mitigation: Total separation of NHS and private work. All declared in appraisals.

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TQ
Prof Faridah