Malaysia by train
How to travel in Malaysia by train: information, connections, blog and travel reports. Help in our forum to buy train tickets.
Beside the main lines served by trains there are frequent bus connections to every part in Malaysia. Find schedules and ticket prices via the given links.
Buy the train ticket at a railway station. Note: in some countries you have to pay a service fee at the ticket counter. The ticket can be purchased at a station in the country of departure, also sometimes in other countries.
train connections
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Malaysia - Singapore
Travel from Malaysia (arriving by train) to Singapore, you have to use first a bus to cross the border and then the Singapore Metro.
You arrive at "JB Sentral" (the station of "Johor Bahru", Malaysia). There you change to the bus number 950 in direction of "Woodlands MRT" station. This bus cross the border (border control) and its journey time is about 45 minutes.
Change at "Woodlands MRT" station to "MRT Singapore Metro" and continue to a station in the city center of Singapore. The journey time is about 45 minutes.
Metro and bus run in frequent short intervals. Total costs are less than 10 EUR.
Malaysia - Thailand
Travel from Malaysia to Thailand by train. The main travel route goes from Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) via Padang Besar (Malaysia) to Bangkok (Thailand).
First travel by Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) to Padang Besar. The journey time is 6 hours and train tickets are available from 17 EUR. Padang Besar is the border station between Malaysia and Thailand.
In Padang Besar you change to the overnight train to Bangkok (Thailand). The journey time is 17 hours and train tickets are available from 900 THB (25 EUR).
Find the exact train schedules and buy your tickets via the given booking-links. You have to buy two tickets in total.