Gemas railway station

Gemas
| Inter-city rail station
The new Gemas Railway Station
General information
Location	Gemas, Tampin, Negeri Sembilan Malaysia
Owned by	Railway Assets Corporation
Operated by	Keretapi Tanah Melayu
Line(s)	West Coast Line East Coast Line
Platforms	3 island platforms
Tracks	9
Construction
Parking	Available, free.
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	1922
Rebuilt	2012
Electrified	2014
Services
Preceding station Keretapi Tanah Melayu (ETS) Following station Batang Melaka towards Padang Besar Padang Besar–Segamat (Gold) Segamat Terminus Batang Melaka towards Butterworth Butterworth–Segamat (Gold) Preceding station Keretapi Tanah Melayu (Intercity) Following station Bahau towards Tumpat Ekspres Rakyat Timuran Segamat towards Johor Bahru Sentral Terminus Ekspres Selatan Bahau towards Kuala Lipis Shuttle Timur Terminus

The Gemas railway station is a Malaysian railway station located at the eastern side of and named after the town of Gemas, Tampin District, Negeri Sembilan. Built in 1922, the station is the meeting point of and the railway junction connecting the West Coast Line (Padang Besar–Woodlands Train Checkpoint) with the East Coast Line (Tumpat–Gemas).

As part of the Seremban–Gemas double tracking and electrification, the tracks were realigned and a new station building was built adjacent to the old station building. The old station building, platforms and a section of the railway tracks have been spared demolition and preserved. The station is served by both, and was previously the only interchange station between Keretapi Tanah Melayu's ETS and Intercity train services.

Location and locality

The station is located at the town centre of Gemas, a small town which is part of the Tampin district of Negeri Sembilan, and is located near the Negeri Sembilan-Johor state border. The town itself is situated on the trunk route of Federal Route 1, providing connectivity to other major town north and south of the route.

The station was previously the southern terminus of the electrified sector of the West Coast Line and the KTM ETS services serving the line, and was previously mostly used by ETS passengers heading to/from Segamat station, as the Segamat town was not far away from Gemas, before the ETS services were extended to Segamat station.

History

The original Gemas station was constructed sometime in 1922 as a hub for trains from Penang, Seremban, and Kuala Lumpur. The station also housed a railyard to store active motive power and rolling stock. The railyard had another function as well: a scrapyard for old, broken down motive power and rolling stock to be scrapped off as cheap metal.

Its function as a junction between the West Coast railway line up to Padang Besar and East Coast railway line up to Tumpat made it very popular to passengers as trains will stop for a certain long period to transfer goods and passengers between both routes, before continuing their journeys. Passenger intending to change trains between both routes also alighted here for their next train.

The old station was closed in 2015 as a new building next to it was built to accommodate electrification of the West Coast line and also the subsequent extension of ETS and Komuter serives, with the new station becoming the southern terminus station of the electrified railway for until 2025. The old station building was later converted as a hawker place and later parts of it converted into a railway museum.

KTM Komuter

Between October 2015 and June 2016, the KTM Komuter Seremban Line (now known as Batu Caves-Pulau Sebang Line) also served the stretch between Seremban and this station via a shuttle service. Passengers to Kuala Lumpur, Batu Caves or Tanjung Malim were required to switch trains at Seremban. Following a rescheduling exercise in June 2016 the shuttle service was cut short and terminated at Pulau Sebang/Tampin, removing Gemas and Batang Melaka from the line. Direct trains all the way to Tanjung Malim (and later to Batu Caves) were established from Pulau Sebang/Tampin and passengers were no longer required to change trains at Seremban. However, both Gemas and Batang Melaka were no longer included in the Batu Caves-Pulau Sebang Line.

KTM ETS

On 10 October 2015, KTM ETS services were extended to Gemas. The station was the southernmost terminus of the service and the only interchange station between the ETS and KTM Intercity until 15 March 2025 when ETS services were extended southwards to Segamat.

Train services

• KTM ETS
  • ETS Gold Train No. 9420/9425 Padang Besar–Segamat
  • ETS Gold Train No. 9322/9321 Butterworth–Segamat
• KTM Intercity
  • Ekspres Selatan Train No. 42/44/46 Johor Bahru Sentral–Gemas
  • Ekspres Selatan Train No. 41/43/45 Gemas–Johor Bahru Sentral
  • Ekspres Rakyat Timuran Train No. 26/27 Tumpat–Johor Bahru Sentral

Gallery

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  View of the new Gemas Railway Station which was constructed as part of the Seremban-Gemas Double Tracking and Electrification Project.
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  Platforms of the new Gemas Railway Station.
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  Platforms of the new Gemas Railway Station with a KTM ETS train.
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  View of the waiting area and ticketing counter of the new Gemas Railway Station.
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  Notice of closure of the KTM Komuter Shuttle Service to/from Batang Melaka railway station and Gemas. images captured at the KTM Pulau Sebang (Tampin) train station.
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  View of the entrance of the old Gemas Railway Station, prior to the construction of the new station.
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  View looking north from the Gemas station prior to reconstruction under the Seremban-Gemas Double Tracking and Electrification Project. Left, the main line to Kuala Lumpur. Right, the Jungle Line to Tumpat, Kelantan.