KTM ETS

Electric Train Service (ETS)
ETS Set 01 and 05 at Ipoh
Overview
Native name	Perkhidmatan Keretapi Elektrik (ms)
Type	Inter-city rail
Locale	Ipoh - Kuala Lumpur
Stations	14
Colour on map	BLUE
Operation
Opening	June 2010
Owner	KTM
Operator(s)	ETS Sdn Bhd
Conduction system	With driver
Rolling stock	5 six-car trainset of KTM Class 91 (in operation) 1 of 10 six-car trainset of KTM Class 93 (trial run)
Technical
Line length	279.90 km
Track gauge	1000 mm
Route map Legend Kuala Kangsar (2014) Salak Utara (2014) Sungai Siput (2014) Chemor (2014) Tasek (2014) Ipoh Batu Gajah Kampar Tapah Road Sungkai Slim River Behrang Tanjung Malim PK-SL border Kuala Kubu Bharu Rawang 1 Sungai Buloh 1 9 SL-KL border Kepong Sentral 10 Kuala Lumpur 12 59 KL Sentral 12 5 67 8 9 SL-NS border Nilai 1 (January 2014(Uncomfirmed)) Seremban 1 (January 2014) Senawang 1 (January 2014) Sungai Gadut 1 (January 2014(Unconfirmed)) Rembau 1 (January 2014) NS-MK border Tampin/Pulau Sebang (January 2014) Batang Melaka (January 2014 MK-NS border Gemas (January 2014)

The KTM Electric Train Service (ETS) is an inter-city electric multiple unit (EMU) service that currently operates between the cities of Kuala Lumpur and Ipoh in Malaysia.^[1] Originally, the train line continued south of KL Sentral railway station to Seremban but out of operation since October 2012.^[2] The trains travel up to 140 km/h on an electrified line and are operated by ETS Sendirian Berhad, a fully owned subsidiary of Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad.

Interior of ETS inter-city EMU.

Background

It was introduced by Keretapi Tanah Melayu on 12 August 2010 on the western coast of Peninsular Malaysia with the service being made possible under the Eighth and Ninth Malaysia Plans.^[3]

Train services

ETS Website Trains operating on the ETS are currently classed as either Gold or Silver Service. Gold Service trains take 2 hours and 20 minutes between KL Sentral and Ipoh, stopping at 11 stations, whilst silver service trains take 2 hours 30 minutes and stop at 14 stations. Prior to October 2012, the Gold service trains did not stop at Tapah Road railway station and Sungkai railway station, taking 2 hours 15 minutes. As of 2014, the Gold service stops at Tapah Road railway station and Sungkai railway station but does not stop at Sungai Buloh railway station, Kuala Kubu Bharu railway station and Behrang railway station. A platinum service was also in operation which travelled non-stop from Kuala Lumpur to Ipoh in 1 hour 58 minutes, but was removed with the new timetable rescheduling.

Rolling stock

First Generation

Five KTM Class 91 train sets, each comprising six cars, were purchased by Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad for $67 million (USD). The train sets were designed by Marubeni Corporation and jointly built by Hyundai Rotem of Korea and Mitsubishi Electric of Japan.^[4] The maximum operational speed of the ETS fleet is 140 km/h but is designed to travel up to 160 km/h.^[5] The total length of each train set is 138 m and weighs 231.8 tons. Each carriage is 22.95 m long, 2.75 m wide and 4 m high.^[6] Each train set has a passenger seating capacity of 350 and includes on-board facilities including toilets, a buffet car, power sockets per two seats and two LED Televisions per car.

Second Generation

10 KTM Class 93 train sets, are in the process of being commissioned to expand ETS service.

Gallery

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  KTM Class 91 ETS Set 01 and 05 at Ipoh

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  Interior of ETS

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  New rolling stock of KTM Class 93 ETS 201.

Future

The service will be expanded from Kuala Kangsar to Butterworth on 1 April 2015.

On Dec 2 2014, a subsidiary of China South Locomotive and Rolling Stock Co, considered the world's largest manufacturer of electric locomotives, CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co., announced that they had won an order to supply high-speed trains for the 200-kilometer rail line between the capital Kuala Lumpur and the city of Ipoh. Zhou Qinghe, president of CSR ZELC said that the meter-gauge electric units would run at a set speed of around 160 km per hour. The trains would also be used on a 900-km railway line being planned between Johor Bahru on the southern tip of the country, and Padang Besar on the Thailand border, according to the train manufacturer. Zhou said after the first batch of 10 trains produced in China were delivered, trains of the same type will then be manufactured at a new manufacturing base being built in Malaysia. The company announced in April it was spending $131 million on the building of a manufacturing and maintenance base to serve the needs of the country, as well as the whole ASEAN region. It has signed five contracts to supply 98 trains and carriages, the first phase of which will be completed by the end of this year.^[7]

On Dec 6 2014, Keretapi Tanah Melayu chairman Datuk Nawawi Ahmad said that a three-hour Electric Train Service (ETS) linking capital Kuala Lumpur to Butterworth, Penang would be operational in June 2015. He said that the new ride would carry some 350 people to Penang from Kuala Lumpur and have 10 new coach sets running on it by January 2016. In an interview, he said that “(This is part of the) operation linking Padang Besar to KL. But first, in June 2015, it will be between Butterworth and KL,”^[8]

See also

• Keretapi Tanah Melayu
  • KTM Intercity
    • KTM West Coast Line
    • KTM East Coast Line
  • KTM Komuter
    • Seremban Line
    • Port Klang Line
• Rail transport in Malaysia
• Public transport in Kuala Lumpur

References

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