Railway enthusiasts are a nostalgic bunch, and now that Keretapi Tanah Melayu‘s (KTM) Electric Train Service (ETS) goes all the way in which right down to Johor Bahru, come January 1, we’ll bid farewell to the diesel-hauled Ekspres Selatan (Southern Express), which has ferried passengers between Gemas and Johor Bahru for nine years. Yup, one other passenger train pulled by a locomotive bites the dust.
The service was called Shuttle Selatan (Southern Shuttle), going between Gemas and Singapore’s Woodlands. Subsequently, Shuttle Tebrau became the one KTM train to Woodlands (and even its days are numbered – as ETS put Ekspres Selatan to bed, RTS Link will retire Shuttle Tebrau), and the long-distance southern service was truncated to JB.
Once the six each day Ekspres Selatan services stop, there’ll only be one regular diesel-hauled train left in Malaysia – the Ekspres Rakyat Timuran, which is able to proceed working the limited-stop service between JB and Tumpat via Gemas. The stopping trains listed here are in fact the new-ish diesel multiple units (DMU), that are confined to the East Coast Line – these work between Gemas and Tumpat under the Shuttle Timuran (Eastern Shuttle) banner.
“Every journey, memory and nostalgia with the Ekspres Selatan will all the time be engraved within the memory of all KTM employees. KTM would love to specific its highest appreciation to all passengers and constant users of the Ekspres Selatan for his or her continued support throughout,” said KTM chief technical officer and acting group CEO Ir Ahmad Nizam Mohamed Amin.
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This Article First Appeared At paultan.org
