Installation Of First Track For The RM75 Billion ECRL By End Year

The installation of the first track of the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) project involving the route from Gebeng to Dungun in Terengganu is scheduled to start at the end of this year.

Malaysia Rail Link Sdn Bhd regional construction manager Khairi Khalid Abdul Rahman said it involves a 90-kilometre (km) route and is expected to be completed in three to four months before the installation work continues from Gebeng to Maran.

“We hope to lay 1.5 km of track per day for the Gebeng to Dungun route. The installation work starts in Gebeng because the equipment used including track-laying machines from China is coming here in line with the project planning.

“All this equipment will arrive at Kuantan Port between October and November, to enable the installation of the track to begin in Pahang,” he said.

Khairi Khalid said out of the total 665 km of ECRL alignment, 231 km are located in Pahang involving about 152 km of level track while the rest are over bridges and through tunnels.

As for the work on bridges, the installation of viaduct beams is progressing well with about 5 km of the bridge route in Pahang done so far.

“There are two beam installation machines called beam launchers, namely in Kuantan for Sungai Kuantan and in Temerloh for work on Sungai Pahang and we expect the bridge to be completed by the end of this year or early 2024,” he said.

As for the Genting Twin Tunnel, which will be the longest rail tunnel in Southeast Asia when it is completed, Khairi Khalid said that so far the tunnel excavation that crosses the Titiwangsa Range has reached more than 2.5 km for each tunnel.

The tunnel excavation uses a tunnel boring machine as opposed to drilling and blasting methods in other tunnels, started last June and is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2025.

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