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In 2013, the governments of Malaysia and Singapore agreed to build a Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore that was scheduled to open in 2026. But shortly after winning the May 2018 election, the incoming Malaysian prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad said he would reconsider the project.
A high-speed rail link between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore was proposed in the late 1990s but due to high costs, the proposal was shelved. [7] In 2006, YTL Corporation, operator of the Express Rail Link in Kuala Lumpur, revived the proposal, with a projected speed of 250 km/h (155 mph).
On 19 February 2013, Singapore and Malaysia announced an agreement to build a high-speed rail link between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore by 2020. [164] The KL–Singapore section, planned to be about 380 km long, would have an estimated travel time of 90 minutes. [ 165 ]
For years, the two countries have considered an ambitious project that would significantly cut that travel time: a 350-kilometer high-speed rail line between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia ...
The high-speed rail link will cut travel time between the two cities from seven hours on existing rail lines, to about 90 minutes. Malaysia's Land Public Transport Commission chairman, Syed Hamid Albar, announced seven stops in Malaysia for the high speed railway, namely Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya, Seremban, Ayer Keroh, Muar, Batu Pahat and ...
By 2001, four corridors had been studied: The Northern Corridor will link Europe and Northeast Asia via Germany, Poland, Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China, North Korea and South Korea, with breaks of gauge at the Polish-Belarusian border (1,435 mm or 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in to 1,520 mm or 4 ft 11 + 27 ⁄ 32 in), the Kazakhstan-Chinese border and the Mongolian-Chinese border (both 1,520 ...
Malaysia and Singapore had cancelled a plan to build a 350-kilometre (217-mile) rail line connecting the two countries after they failed to agree on several proposed changes to the project.
The North–South express railway (Vietnamese: Đường sắt cao tốc Bắc-Nam) is a planned high speed railway in Vietnam. [2] [3] The line would begin in Thanh Trì and end in Thủ Đức, connecting the two most urbanised areas in the country: Hanoi in the North, and Ho Chi Minh City in the South. [4]