WHEN Prof Dr Jimmy Lim was appointed by the Penang Municipal Coun-cil to undertake the Penang Hill Visitor Centre project, he decided to salvage part of the 87-year-old funicular train railway tracks for the centre.
A conservationist at heart, he felt that the philosophy for reusing the old tracks was mainly to preserve their rich heritage value.
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