Kuala Lumpur Sentral railway station

Kuala Lumpur Sentral is the largest railway station in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur.

The station is known in Malaysia under the term KL Sentral. Trains leave from different systems in different directions. Officially, the Stesen Sentral station, but is hardly known by this term.

The multi-storey building complex was opened on 16 April 2001 in order to replace the old main railway station of Kuala Lumpur, which dates back to the colonial era. But the old station still serves as a stop for local trains.

The major project KL Sentral, in an area of ​​more than 290,000 m² of an old track apron and includes in addition to the station building as well as hotels, office buildings and shopping centers.

The project is led by a consortium led by Malaysian Community Resources Corporation Berhad ( MRCB ), Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad ( KTMB ), the Malaysian railway undertakings and Pembinaan Redzai Sdn.

The station building complex

Almost every level in the station complex has a different function.

The lowest level is served by buses and is also not visible to the passengers as the train depot and depot of the Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTM).

The second level enter and leave the KTM Komuter trains, the KLIA Ekspres and KLIA Transit of. The KLIA Ekspres and KLIA Transit are the high-speed lines, hit the the Kuala Lumpur International Airport.

In the third level are the platforms on the long-distance transport of KTM. From where trains to Singapore and to other Malaysian cities on the west coast.

The fourth level is used as a distribution level. There are many shopping and dining facilities.

From the fourth level brings passengers to the stop of leaderless, light railway (mixture of underground and elevated railway ), Kelana Jaya Line the so-called (formerly Putra Line LRT).

About 180 meters from the station is a terminus of the Monorail KL Monorail.

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