SEREMBAN: Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTMB) has sold 210,000 out of the 270,000 train tickets allocated for the Chinese New Year festive season.
Transport Minister, Anthony Loke Siew Fook said KTMB will add two trips a day for the locomotive train service for the Kuala Lumpur-Butterworth, Penang destination in conjunction with the festive holiday.
"The surplus of tickets is because there are not many people buying return-trip tickets, most of the tickets heading back to the village are full, for example Kuala Lumpur to Ipoh (Perak) and KL-Butterworth (Penang)," he told reporters after the Handover Ceremony of the ETS Class 93 Train, Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) Project to the Transport Ministry at the EMU KTMB Depot here on Monday (Jan 20).
Meanwhile, Loke said the ministry had received an ETS train that was completed through the MRO project, thus becoming one of the additional trains in service during and after the Chinese New Year period.
"We have a contract with Railtech, they were given a contract to maintain MRO level four for two types of trains, namely 35 sets of KTM commuters and 10 sets of ETS Class 93 trains. So far, including today's set, we have a total of six sets that have been well refurbished, maintained and returned to be operated again by KTMB," he said. - Bernama
