Night train route
Ekspres Rakyat Timuran
Johor Bahru → Tumpat · Malaysia
Ekspres Rakyat Timuran in pictures
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- Distance
- 725 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 17 h
- Average speed
- 43 km/h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- KTM Berhad
- Train
- KTM Class 26 sleeper
- Countries
- Malaysia
- In service since
- 1931
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Malaysia’s last sleeper: the overnight “Jungle Railway” through rainforest, limestone gorges and sleepy kampungs from Johor Bahru to the Thai border.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 2893513 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 61 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 15 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: KTM — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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