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KLIA Ekspres is a high speed train linking KL Sentral in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia to the international airport, KLIA. The KL City Air Terminal (KLCAT), located at KL Sentral, has the IATA designation XKL and can be used by passengers to check in for flights from KLIA. The non-stop trip takes exactly 28 minutes. Trains depart at 15-minute intervals (during peak hours) and a basic one-way trip costs 35 ringgit, although a variety of discounts are available.The commuter service KLIA Transit running on the same tracks takes 9 minutes longer for the same trip, since it also stops in Bandar Tasik Selatan , Putrajaya/ Cyberjaya, and Salak Tinggi .
Both services use the Desiro trainset by Siemens AG.
The Ekspres rail link was opened on April 14, 2002, with the Transit service following on August 23, 2002. Malaysians often still refer to the line by its working name Express Rail Link or ERL. The service run at a maximum commercial speed at 160km/h.
1 See also
- Kuala Lumpur rail transport, Putra LRT, Star LRT, KL Monorail, KLIA Transit and KTMKeretapi Tanah Melayu KTM or the Malayan Railway is the main railway system in Peninsular Malaysia. It was formerly run by the Malayan Railway Administration, but since corporatisation in 1991 has been run by Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTM Bhd or KTMB).
- Rail transportThis is the top-level page of WikiProject trains A railroad or railway is a guided means of land transport, designed for trains to use for transporting both passengers and freight. It consists of two parallel rails, usually made of steel, and wooden or co, Light railLight rail is a particular class of urban and suburban passenger railway that utilizes equipment and infrastructure that is typically less massive than that used for metro systems and heavy railways. Light rail is the successor term to streetcars, trolley, heavy railThe term heavy rail is often used for regular railways, to distinguish from systems such as trams/ light rail and metro. Heavy rail typically refers to the standard inter-city rail network, which is built to be robust enough for heavy and high-speed train, and monorailA monorail is a metro or railroad with a track consisting of a single rail (actually a beam), as opposed to the traditional track with two parallel rails. Monorail vehicles are wider than the beam they run on. Types and Technical Aspects There are two mai.
- Public transporttaxi serving as a bus Public transport comprises all transport systems in which the passengers do not travel in their own vehicles. It is also called public transit or mass transit . While it is generally taken to mean rail and bus services, wider definit, rapid transitRapid transit describes a type of urban rail transportation, generally including subway and elevated lines in the U. Metros in most other countries, and U-Bahnen in Germany. Originally, the term rapid transit was used beginning in the 1800s to describe ne and metro.
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