Pulau Sebang/Tampin railway station
railway station in Malaysia
The Pulau Sebang/Tampin railway station (formerly Tampin railway station) is a Malaysian train station on the West Coast Line located near and named after the bordering towns of Pulau Sebang, Malacca and Tampin, Negeri Sembilan. The station itself is situated in Malaccan territory, being one of the two stations on the West Coast Line that serves the state of Malacca, the other being Batang Melaka.
The station is served by KTM ETS services and KTM Komuter's Batu Caves–Pulau Sebang Line. The station is the southern terminus of the Komuter line and was formerly the northern terminus of KTM Intercity's Ekspres Selatan service from JB Sentral.
Location and locality
This station is located in Pulau Sebang in the Alor Gajah District of the state Malacca, and is just a few minutes walk from the Tampin town centre in Negeri Sembilan. Tampin and Pulau Sebang itself have been blending their development between these borders that any differences look hard to distinguish between the borders originally marked in the town.
Being a station between the border of two states, near a major town and the terminus of a major commuter line makes the station quite strategic to travellers. It serves both Tampin and Pulau Sebang localities in general and attracts passengers as far as central Melaka as there's a bus route of SBST Melaka bus service T20 that goes from Melaka Sentral to Tampin bus terminal.
Naming dispute
Initially, the station was named "Tampin railway station", despite the station being situated geographically in Pulau Sebang, and not Tampin. There was an unresolved dispute to what the railway station is named as.
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