page_title: Rail transport in Malaysia
section_title: Sabah
hierarchical_section_title: Rail transport in Malaysia / Railway infrastructure / Metre gauge rail / Sabah
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Beaufort Sabah: New trains of Sabah State Railway in 2011.
context_page_description: Rail transport in Malaysia consists of heavy rail, light rapid transit, mass rapid transit
  , monorails, airport rail links and a funicular railway line. Heavy rail is mostly used for intercity passenger and freight transport as well as some urban public transport, while rapid transit is used for intra-city urban public transport in Kuala Lumpur, the national capital, and the surrounding Klang Valley region. There are two airport rail link systems linking Kuala Lumpur with the Kuala Lumpur International Airport and Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport. The longest monorail line in the country is also used for public transport in Kuala Lumpur, while the only funicular railway line is in Penang.
  The railway network covers most of the 11 states in Peninsular Malaysia. In East Malaysia, only the state of Sabah has railways. The network is also connected to the Thai railway 1,000 mm network in the north. If the Burma Railway is rebuilt, services to Myanmar, India, and China could be initiated.
context_section_description: There is a 134 km (83 mi) railway line linking Tanjung Aru near Kota Kinabalu and Tenom in the interior of Sabah state. The line is the only railway on the island of Borneo. Normal passenger trains operated by the Sabah State Railway Department. The line has been suffering from lack of maintenance for many years and in 2006, the Malaysian Government funded rehabilitation works for the line. A pipe dream is to have a railway line from Kota Kinabalu to Kuching through Brunei though the cost of this would mean seeking funding from Brunei.
caption: The Sabah State Railway.
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