Ipoh railway station
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| Location | 30100 Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia. | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Keretapi Tanah Melayu | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | KTM ETS | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform 1 island platform |
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| Tracks | 9 | ||||||||||
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| Parking | Available,Two Zones Owned by KTMB parking system and MBI respectively | ||||||||||
| Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 1917 | ||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 2007 | ||||||||||
| Electrified | 2008 | ||||||||||
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The Ipoh railway station is a Malaysian train station located at the south-western side of and named after the capital city of Ipoh, Perak. It serves as the main railway terminal for the state under Keretapi Tanah Melayu, offering KTM Intercity services, ETS services, as well as handling freight trains. Although there are 9 tracks, only four are electrified and three of the electrified tracks are used for ETS and Intercity services. While the rest (6 other tracks) are use as a freight yard.
Designed by Arthur Benison Hubback, the current station was officially opened in 1917. Affectionately known as the Taj Mahal of Ipoh by its locals, the building also houses a station hotel called the Majestic Hotel.
The first Ipoh station was constructed in 1894 as railway tracks for the Perak Railway (PR) were first laid along Ipoh, serving the town for 20 years through the final years of the PR and its consolidation into the Federated Malay States Railways (FMSR).
In 1914, construction of a second station and hotel to replace the first station began; dogged by material shortages and escalating costs of labour during the Great War, the station was only completed in 1917. The new double-storey station building was constructed with vastly larger space to not only house railway offices, but also Majestic Hotel, an enclose hotel that also boasted a restaurant and a bar. Originally offering 17 bedrooms which directly grant access to the second floor loggia, the hotel upgraded its number of rooms to 21 in 1936.
For over 80 years, through the operational years of the FMSR and its eventual successor, Malayan Railways, the station's overall layout has remained largely unchanged since its construction due to minimal upgrading exercises throughout the wider Peninsular Malaysian railway network.
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