Railway lovers are a nostalgic bunch, and now that Keretapi Tanah Melayu‘s (KTM) Electrical Practice Service (ETS) goes all the best way all the way down to Johor Bahru, come January 1, we are going to bid farewell to the diesel-hauled Ekspres Selatan (Southern Specific), which has ferried passengers between Gemas and Johor Bahru for 9 years. Yup, one other passenger practice pulled by a locomotive bites the mud.
The service was once referred to as Shuttle Selatan (Southern Shuttle), going between Gemas and Singapore’s Woodlands. Subsequently, Shuttle Tebrau turned the one KTM practice to Woodlands (and even its days are numbered – as ETS put Ekspres Selatan to mattress, RTS Hyperlink will retire Shuttle Tebrau), and the long-distance southern service was truncated to JB.
As soon as the six day by day Ekspres Selatan providers stop, there’ll solely be one common diesel-hauled practice left in Malaysia – the Ekspres Rakyat Timuran, which can proceed working the limited-stop service between JB and Tumpat by way of Gemas. The stopping trains listed here are after all the new-ish diesel a number of items (DMU), that are confined to the East Coast Line – these work between Gemas and Tumpat below the Shuttle Timuran (Japanese Shuttle) banner.
“Each journey, reminiscence and nostalgia with the Ekspres Selatan will at all times be engraved within the reminiscence of all KTM staff. KTM wish to categorical its highest appreciation to all passengers and dependable customers of the Ekspres Selatan for his or her continued help all through,” stated KTM chief technical officer and performing group CEO Ir Ahmad Nizam Mohamed Amin.
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