A senior project director with the Kuala Lumpur Mass Rapid Transit Company says trains running on Rapid Rail’s LRT lines will be converted over the next two years. Zohari Sulaiman explained the conversions would allow the trains to carry more passengers and offer a higher degree of comfort.
Giving more details about the project, Sulaiman said the ends of two twin-car trains had been removed so the two could then be joined together to form the extended set. The new trains have been given a makeover too with enhancements like new lights, wheelchair spaces and noise-reducing rail-lubricator mechanisms.
Before the first refurbed train entered service, it was given rigorous trials and completed the equivalent of a 2,000km journey. 12GO ASIA says the systems on which the trains will all be eventually lengthened include the Kelana Jaya and Ampang LRT lines.
Elongated prototype urban trains introduced in Kuala Lumpur
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The operators of Kuala Lumpur’s suburban rail network have introduced the first longer four-carriage trains. The prototype just introduced was created by joining two twin-car trains together and is part of a greater project which will see all of the Malaysian capital’s LRT trains converted.