ECRL fares expected to be announced this month, ticket sales in November

Malaysia Rail Link Sdn Bhd expects East Coast Rail Link fares to be announced this month with ticket sales starting in November.

The ECRL will operate 12 return trips daily from Monday to Thursday and 14 from Friday to Sunday once operations begin.

The 665km rail link will reduce travel time between Kota Bharu and Gombak to about four hours, roughly half the current road duration.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 6 — Malaysia Rail Link Sdn Bhd (MRL) expects East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) fares to be announced this month, with ticket sales targeted to begin in November ahead of commercial operations in mid-December.

MRL chief executive officer Datuk Seri Darwis Abdul Razak said the Transport Ministry was expected to announce the fares.

“We expect dynamic and affordable fares that will be lower than airfares and slightly higher than bus fares,” he said at an ECRL operational readiness briefing for media editors today.

Darwis said for the first phase, the ECRL trains would operate 12 return trips daily from Monday to Thursday and 14 from Friday to Sunday.

He said MRL was satisfied with the progress of Phase One of the project, covering Kota Bharu to Gombak, which reached 98.16 per cent completion as of September, and was confident of meeting the mid-December 2026 target for commercial operations.

Darwis also highlighted the performance of the ECRL Comprehensive Inspection Train (CIT), which recently completed a non-stop 519km journey from Gombak to Kota Bharu in three hours and 19 minutes, reaching speeds of up to 160kph.

He said the run demonstrated the ECRL’s ability to provide an express service on the Gombak-KotaSAS-Kuala Terengganu-Kota Bharu route in under four hours.

The 665km ECRL will traverse Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang before connecting with Selangor on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia.

Once operational, the ECRL is expected to cut travel time between Kota Bharu and Gombak to about four hours, from around seven hours by road. — Bernama

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马来西亚铁路有限公司预计将于本月公布东海岸铁路的票价，车票将于11月开始发售。

ECRL 运营开始后，周一至周四每天将开行 12 个往返班次，周五至周日每天将开行 14 个往返班次。

这条665公里长的铁路将把哥打巴鲁和贡巴克之间的旅行时间缩短至约4小时，大约是目前公路旅行时间的一半。

吉隆坡，10 月 6 日讯——马来西亚铁路公司 (MRL) 预计东海岸铁路 (ECRL) 票价将于本月公布，车票销售计划于 11 月开始，商业运营将于 12 月中旬启动。

MRL首席执行官拿督斯里达尔维斯·阿卜杜勒·拉扎克表示，交通部预计将公布票价。

“我们预计票价将灵活且实惠，低于机票价格，略高于巴士票价，”他在今天为媒体编辑举行的东海岸铁路运营准备情况简报会上说。

达尔维斯表示，第一阶段，东海岸铁路列车周一至周四每天将运行 12 个往返班次，周五至周日每天将运行 14 个往返班次。

他表示，MRL对该项目第一阶段（涵盖哥打巴鲁至鹅唛段）的进展感到满意，截至9月份已完成98.16%，并有信心实现2026年12月中旬的商业运营目标。

达尔维斯还重点介绍了东海岸铁路综合检查列车 (CIT) 的性能，该列车最近完成了从贡巴克到哥打巴鲁的 519 公里不间断旅程，用时 3 小时 19 分钟，最高时速达到 160 公里/小时。

他表示，此次运行证明了东海岸铁路有能力在四小时内提供贡巴克-哥打萨斯-瓜拉登嘉楼-哥打巴鲁路线的特快服务。

全长 665 公里的 ECRL 将穿越吉兰丹、登嘉楼和彭亨，然后连接马来西亚半岛西海岸的雪兰莪。

东海岸铁路一旦投入运营，预计将哥打巴鲁和鹅唛之间的通勤时间从公路行驶的约7小时缩短至约4小时。——马新社

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