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Article: Kuala Lumpur Express Rail Link opens for business. (Asia).
- Article from:
- International Railway Journal
- Article date:
- May 1, 2002
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Kuala Lumpur's Express Rail Link opened last month. The new 57km line between Kuala Lumpur International Airport and the city centre provides a minimum passenger journey time of 28 minutes.
THE Express Rail Link (ERL) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, opened on April 19 when the construction consortium, SYZ, handed it over officially to ERL SB, the company which was awarded the 30-year concession by the government to finance, design, build, manage, operate, and maintain the $US 632 million airport railway.
ERL connects Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) with Sentral station and it is operated by two distinct types of passenger service. The Airport ...