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The RM9.5 billion project will reduce journey time between KL and JB to just 4.5 hours, down from the current seven hours by diesel train.

The new electrified double-track rail project will operate at speeds of 140km/h and include stops at Segamat, Kluang, Kulai, and JB Sentral.



https://www.therakyatpost.com/news/malay...ch-delays/

The Electric Train Service (ETS) connecting Gemas to Johor Bahru is nearing completion and is expected to launch in August, promising to revolutionize travel between Kuala Lumpur and Johor Bahru.

(08-03-2025, 03:18 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]The Electric Train Service (ETS) connecting Gemas to Johor Bahru is nearing completion and is expected to launch in August, promising to revolutionize travel between Kuala Lumpur and Johor Bahru.

As of March 8, 2025, Malaysia's East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) project is nearing completion, with 78.5% progress achieved, and is expected to start operations in January 2027. The RTS Link project between Johor Bahru and Singapore is also progressing well, with systems 50% complete and aiming for passenger service by the end of 2026.
Here's a more detailed breakdown of the railway progress in Malaysia:

(08-03-2025, 03:21 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]As of March 8, 2025, Malaysia's East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) project is nearing completion, with 78.5% progress achieved, and is expected to start operations in January 2027. The RTS Link project between Johor Bahru and Singapore is also progressing well, with systems 50% complete and aiming for passenger service by the end of 2026.
Here's a more detailed breakdown of the railway progress in Malaysia:

Rail system works on Johor Bahru-Singapore RTS Link 50% complete.

The RTS Link, which will stretch 4km from Singapore’s Woodlands North station to Johor’s Bukit Chagar station, is expected to start passenger service by the end of 2026.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapor...te-4961391

(08-03-2025, 03:25 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Rail system works on Johor Bahru-Singapore RTS Link 50% complete.

The RTS Link, which will stretch 4km from Singapore’s Woodlands North station to Johor’s Bukit Chagar station, is expected to start passenger service by the end of 2026.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapor...te-4961391

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapor...te-4961391

(08-03-2025, 03:21 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]As of March 8, 2025, Malaysia's East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) project is nearing completion, with 78.5% progress achieved, and is expected to start operations in January 2027. The RTS Link project between Johor Bahru and Singapore is also progressing well, with systems 50% complete and aiming for passenger service by the end of 2026.
Here's a more detailed breakdown of the railway progress in Malaysia:

Updates were given by RTS Operations (RTSO) project director Zahrin Abdul Gani RTSO is a joint venture company formed by transport operators Prasarana Malaysia and Singapore's SMRT Corporation. The RTS Link, which will stretch 4km from S'pore’s Woodlands North station to Johor’s Bukit Chagar station, is expected to begin service by the end of 2026. It aims to ease traffic congestion on the Causeway – one of the world's busiest border crossings – by ferrying up to 10,000 passengers an hour each way. Mr Zahrin said that the “system implementation phase” of the project is progressing well.

“In the coming months, our key focus will be on critical systems including trackwork, rolling stock (the trains), traction power and the seamless integration of signalling and control systems,” he added. Asked by the media about the possible fares, RTSO CEO Dr Ahmad Marzuki Ariffin said that there is “no information to disclose as of yet”, and that fares will be announced closer to the start date.

In January last year, then-PM Lee Hsien Loong and his Malaysian counterpart Anwar Ibrahim marked the completion of a 17.1m-long structure linking the marine viaducts of both countries. On the S'pore side, work to connect the RTS Link to the Thomson-East Coast Line (TEL) will begin in 2025, S'pore's Land Transport Authority (LTA), Malaysia's Mass Rapid Transit Corporation and RTSO said in a joint statement last November.

(07-03-2025, 08:52 AM)theold Wrote: [ -> ]The RM9.5 billion project will reduce journey time between KL and JB to just 4.5 hours, down from the current seven hours by diesel train.

The new electrified double-track rail project will operate at speeds of 140km/h and include stops at Segamat, Kluang, Kulai, and JB Sentral.



https://www.therakyatpost.com/news/malay...ch-delays/

Malaysia's Electric Train Service (ETS) connecting KL to Johor Bahru This electrified double-track rail project will transform intercity travel, significantly reducing journey between KL<>Johor Bahru (JB) to just 3.5 hours

(07-03-2025, 08:52 AM)theold Wrote: [ -> ]The RM9.5 billion project will reduce journey time between KL and JB to just 4.5 hours, down from the current seven hours by diesel train.

The new electrified double-track rail project will operate at speeds of 140km/h and include stops at Segamat, Kluang, Kulai, and JB Sentral.



https://www.therakyatpost.com/news/malay...ch-delays/

!It a modern Light Rail Transit (LRT) system will provide high volume, fast efficient transportation system between the two stations. Llink will be integrated with public transport systems at both stations, providing an alternative transportation that will help alleviate congestion at immigration checkpoints for both countries. It will have a capacity of 10,000 passengers per hour, per direction and an expected ridership of about 40,000 passengers per day upon opening.

Immigration, Custom & Quarantine (ICQ)
As an international link between M'sia & S'pore, RTS Link Project includes a new Immigration, Customs & Quarantine (ICQ) facility next to the station at Bukit Chagar. Similarly, the RTS Link Station in Woodlands North in Singapore will also have Customs, Immigration and Quarantine (CIQ) 

What is unique is that the Malaysian ICQ & S'orean CIQ facilities will be co-located within the same building, will allow entire immigration process of leaving / entering both countries to be completed departing station.
Upon arrival, passenger will just leave the station without needing to go through border crossing formalities again. Link Maintenance Depot is at Wadi Hana...

(08-03-2025, 04:00 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Malaysia's Electric Train Service (ETS) connecting KL to Johor Bahru This electrified double-track rail project will transform intercity travel, significantly reducing journey between KL<>Johor Bahru (JB) to just 3.5 hours

This last stop before JB were be at Kluang.
This is the last stop for whose who want to go to Batu Bahat or Yong Peng have to hop in taxi about an hour.

HSR is dead