Remember moments from your childhood where you can ride your bicycle over to your friends’ blocks or houses, invite them out and play outdoor games or sports?

Today, even as adults, most interactions among friends have shifted online or via mobile devices, so getting them to come over on a regular basis becomes less compelling.

With the 24km-long Rail Corridor set to fully open by 2024, bringing back that sense of adventure and camaraderie among friends on a weekly basis may seem like a good throwback.

Better yet, if your friends live near the corridor’s many access points, a weekly catch-up among families to work out and interact with nature together, may just be a great lifestyle to have.

Singapore’s Rail Corridor

A National Parks initiative, the Corridor connects the Kranji woodlands to Tanjong Pagar Railway Station.

It transforms the now unused Singapore-Malaysia railway line into a continuous green passage, allowing nature’s wildlife to move from one forest to another.

It’s also a recreational passageway for members of the public to jog, brisk walk, appreciate nature and feel nostalgic. They can walk the entire trail or choose sections between various access points.

While not exactly a cycling paradise like our Park Connector Network (PCN), you can cycle along the corridor with your mates.

However, you must keep to a 10km/h speed limit. Furthermore, while most sections are dirt paths, concrete or rubbered flooring, some parts are gravel, like the newly refurbished Truss Bridges at Upper Bukit Timah and Bukit Timah.

As the Corridor is meant more for nocturnal wildlife, it is open 24/7, but lights are switched off at night. Also, not every section is lit, so the advice is to plan ahead, exit by nightfall and take extra care if it gets too dark or late.

Between now and 2026, NParks is enhancing different sections along the trail, so some sections may be diverted or rerouted. It’s recently opened the Bukit Timah Railway Station node, which includes two conserved buildings – the Station and Railway Staff Quarters, two gardens – Kampung Garden, and Herb and Spice Garden, yard shelter with a toilet block and an event lawn.

Some upcoming improvements (most should be ready by 2024) include:

• A pedestrian steel bridge across Hillview Road by mid-2023.
• Extended pedestrian overhead bridge along Upper Bukit Timah Road to provide seamless access between Rail Mall and the Corridor.
• New ramps to the Corridor from Hillview MRT station and Hume Avenue.
• A 6.3km Corridor section linking Hillview with Kranji by end-2022. By 2023, there will be new shelters and toilets.
• A platform with public toilets next to the Upper Bukit Timah Truss Bridge by end-2022.
• Observation deck that allows visitors to view the Bukit Timah Hill summit.
• More landscaped paths and sheltered spaces.
• Events nodes (eg. spaces for sports, community and cultural events) at access points near Kranji, Yew Tee, Buona Vista and Queensway. The first is planned for end-2023.
• The last stretch linking the Corridor with the old Tanjong Pagar Railway Station will complete by 2026. Agencies are currently studying potential uses for it, considering that it is a nostalgic monument.

New launch properties within 1km of the Rail Corridor

When we view the Rail Corridor as a point of recreation and a healthy lifestyle choice, it would make sense to identify properties near the Corridor as possible homes.

Besides living healthy and staying fit with families and friends, residents having easy, walking-distance access to the Corridor are building memories together if they visit it regularly.

Over time, their lifestyles and perspectives are formed and shaped around an appreciation for nature and nostalgia – which are great qualities to build within your family and household.

If you’re on the lookout for such a property, we’ve compiled a list of new launch private developments near the Rail Corridor.

Besides grouping them by District, we’ve plotted the approximate distance between the development and the nearest point of the Corridor using Google Maps.

You may want to cross-reference with NParks’ guide map (like this one for the 4km trail between Bukit Timah Railway Station and Hillview) on where the nearest access point to the Corridor would be.

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Properties for sale around Rail Corridor (Central)

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Gardenvista

950 Dunearn Rd · D21

3

3

1,163 sqft

$2,050,000

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Maplewoods

993 Bt Timah Rd · D21

2

2

915 sqft

$1,900,000

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Airview Park

Tham Soong Ave · D21

5

5

4,780 sqft

$7,380,000

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17 Toh Yi Drive

Singapore 590017 · D21

3

2

1,119 sqft

$850,000

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Mayfair Gardens

8 Rifle Range Rd · D21

3

3

1,647 sqft

$3,328,000

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Mayfair Modern

6 Rifle Range Rd · D21

2

721 sqft

$1,630,000

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Mayfair Modern

6 Rifle Range Rd · D21

4

3

1,300 sqft

$3,080,000

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Mayfair Modern

6 Rifle Range Rd · D21

2

2

797 sqft

$1,850,000

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Mayfair Modern

6 Rifle Range Rd · D21

4

3

1,281 sqft

$2,878,000

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Cheng Soon Garden

Cheng Soon Garden · D21

3

3

4,500 sqft

$11,000,000

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