Medan Tuanku Station
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Medan Tuanku station is a
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n elevated
monorail A monorail is a Rail transport, railway in which the track consists of a single rail or beam. Colloquially, the term "monorail" is often used to describe any form of elevated rail or people mover. More accurately, the term refers to the style ...
train station A train station, railroad station, or railway station is a railway facility where trains stop to load or unload passengers, freight, or both. It generally consists of at least one platform, one track, and a station building providing suc ...
that serves as a part of the
Kuala Lumpur Monorail The KL Monorail Line is the only operational monorail system in Malaysia. Operated as part of the Rapid KL system by Rapid Rail, a subsidiary of Prasarana Malaysia, it is one of the components of the Klang Valley Integrated Transit System. The li ...
(KL Monorail), located in
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and opened alongside the rest of the train service on 31 August 2003. This station was formerly called Wawasan Monorail station, since the adjacent development project was named as “Bandar Wawasan” in Kampung Baru area. The station is situated above Jalan Sultan Ismail, just south of
Chow Kit Chow Kit is a suburb in central Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is located around Jalan Chow Kit (Chow Kit Road) and is enclosed by the parallel streets of Jalan Raja Laut and Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman. It is named after Loke Chow Kit () a well-know ...
and located east of an
intersection In mathematics, the intersection of two or more objects is another object consisting of everything that is contained in all of the objects simultaneously. For example, in Euclidean geometry, when two lines in a plane are not parallel, their ...
with
Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman (formerly Batu Road) is a major one-way road in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The road is named after the first Yang di-Pertuan Agong The King of Malaysia, officially ''Yang di-Pertuan Agong'' ( Jawi alphabet, Jawi: ) ...
; it marks the start and end of the Monorail line that runs parallel along Sultan Ismail Road, until the Bukit Bintang station, after which the line turns west to
Jalan Imbi Jalan Imbi is a major road in Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is named after Sergeant Imbi bin Seedin, who had his house at the junction of Jalan Imbi and Jalan Pudu. Route It runs in a southwest-northeast direction, from the intersec ...
at both road intersection. The station is situated in and named after Medan Tuanku, a small district connected to Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman, Jalan Sultan Ismail and Jalan Dang Wangi via backroads.


Interchange

The station is linked to the Sultan Ismail LRT station, 580 metres away, by a pedestrian bridge.
Dang Wangi Dang Wangi is an area in the city centre of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, situated north of Dataran Merdeka, bordering Bukit Nanas and Medan Tuanku and located between the Gombak River, Gombak and Klang Rivers. The name is derived from Hang Jebat's wife ...
station is also a 520-meter walk away, via Jalan Raja Abdullah. The station is also linked with the Quill City Mall via entrance E. There is no bus service provided to the station.


References

Kuala Lumpur Monorail stations Railway stations in Malaysia opened in 2003 {{Malaysia-rail-transport-stub