"We'll Bring You Back To Vote" – KTMB To Provide Special ETS Services For #GE15
Tickets will be up for sale starting at 2pm today, 1 November.
Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTMB) announced today, 1 November, that it will be offering special Keluarga Malaysia train services to commuters in conjunction with the 15th General Election (GE15)
KTMB has extended this service mainly to Malaysians who would want to travel back to their hometowns on the east coast to cast their votes.
This Keluarga Malaysia train service will be running from 18 November to 20 November, where trains will depart from the KL Sentral station and will make their final stop at Tumpat, Kelantan.
The schedules for KL Sentral to Tumpat have been released on the KTMB Facebook page
On 18 November, trains will depart from the KL Sentral station at 3.40pm and will arrive at Tumpat at 7.40am on polling day, 19 November.
After voting, commuters who want to travel to Kuala Lumpur from the east coast may depart from the Tumpat station at 5.10pm and arrive at the KL Sentral station at 11.26am.
Image via KTM Berhad (Facebook)
KTMB will also be extending its Keluarga Malaysia train services to Padang Besar, Perlis and Butterworth, Penang
According to the KTMB's Facebook announcement, the train schedules for these services are as follows:
Image via KTM Berhad (Facebook)
Tickets will be open for sale starting at 2pm today, 1 November
You can buy your tickets at the KTMB official website, through the KTMB mobile application, or at any KTMB train ticket kiosk.
Last week, a Sarawak church raised RM30,000 to help students fly home for GE15:
Additionally, Malaysia airlines and Firefly are offering discounted tickets during the GE15 period to help voters get back home to vote:
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