Beaufort railway station (Sabah)
railway station in Beaufort, Malaysia
Beaufort railway station (Malay: Stesen Keretapi Beaufort) is one of four main railway stations on the Western Sabah Railway Line located in Beaufort, Sabah, Malaysia.
History
Railway construction in Beaufort started in 1896; the first construction of a minor station started at the Bakau River on the north east. Another minor station was built on the bank of the Padas River in south Beaufort on 1898. The main station in the town centre (which is the present station) was completed in 1903. Full operation service of the North Borneo Railway started on 1 August 1914.
In 2007, the station was closed for renovation; the original wooden station building was demolished and replaced with a new concrete building. The present station began operation on 21 February 2011. During the 2015 East Malaysian floods, the station was severely flooded. In 2016, a new railbus was introduced, along with new diesel multiple unit (DMUs) from India for use on the Beaufort–Tenom lines.
The public source identifies “Beaufort railway station (Sabah)” as railway station in Beaufort, Malaysia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Beaufort, railway and station.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q30623459. Authority coordinates are 5.344, 115.745. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1896, 1898, 1903 and 1914.
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This entry incorporates text from “Beaufort railway station (Sabah)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.