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Monday, January 31, 2011

Floods disrupt train services to the east and south

As a follow-up to an earlier post on Flood situation in Johore, southern state of Malaysia, the latest report is that floods have disrupted train services to the east and the south.

As reported by The Star:

KUALA LUMPUR: Heavy rain has disrupted KTM’s intercity services to the east coast and to the south on Monday.

Flooding of the tracks between Bahau, Negri Sembilan (km11.75). Tampin, Negri Sembilan (km510) and Kluang, Johor (km652.25) has led to the cancellation of a number of train services, KTM said in a statement on Monday.

KTM intercity train services affected are as follows:

Ekspres Rakyat No. 1 (Kuala Lumpur Central- Singapore) - Service cancelled

Ekspres Rakyat No. 2 (Singapore- Kuala Lumpur Central) - Service cancelled

Ekspres Sinaran Selatan No. 12 (Singapore- Kuala Lumpur Sentral) - Service cancelled

Ekspres Sinaran Selatan No. 13 (Kuala Lumpur Central-Singapore) - Service cancelled

Ekspres Sinaran No. 14 (Singapore-Kuala Lipis) - Service cancelled

Ekspres Sinaran No. 15 (Kuala Lipis – Singapore) - Service cancelled

Shuttle No. 61 (Gemas- Kluang) - service only available between Kluang – Singapore.

Shuttle No. 64 (Kluang - Gemas)- service only available between Singapore-Kluang.

Services for the central and northern sector are unaffected, for now.

Affected passengers could change their travel date or get a full ticket refund, the statement said.


Related article:
Johor floods: Two dead and nearly 29,000 evacuated

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