Keretapi Tanah Melayu
Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTM or KTMB), literally "Railway Company of the Malayan States" is Malaysia's national railway operator. The service originates from a railway system left by the British when they colonised Malaya. Fares are generally cheap, but the slow speed of the aging tracks is usually not competitive with plane or even bus travel.There are two main routes from Singapore through the Malay Peninsula into Thailand, the eastern and the western line. The main western track starting from Singapore passes through Johor Bahru, Gemas, KL Sentral (Kuala Lumpur), Ipoh and Butterworth (the connection point for Penang) before continuing onto Hat Yai in Thailand. The eastern "jungle line" separates from the western track at Gemas, crossing the mountainous backbone of Malaysia to Wakaf Bharu (near Kota Bharu) and Tumpat. There are no direct through trains to Thailand, but the border and Thai terminus of Sungei Kolok is not far away.
After the privatization of KTMB, a modernization program has been underway, but the ambitious project of electrifying and double-tracking the entire western line has been put on hold until further notice by prime minister Abdullah Badawi.
The KLIA Ekspres airport link service between KLIA and KL Sentral is operated by the private company Express Rail Link Sdn Bhd.
The sole rail service in East Malaysia, the line from Tanjung Aru (Kota Kinabalu) to Tenom, is operated by the private North Borneo Railway and Sabah State Railways.Other Malaysian train services