Tun Sambanthan Monorail station, is a
Malaysian elevated
monorail station
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that forms a part of the
Kuala Lumpur Monorail
The KL Monorail Line is one of the operational monorail systems in Malaysia. Operated as part of the RapidKL system by Rapid Rail, a subsidiary of Prasarana Malaysia, it is one of the components of the Klang Valley Integrated Transit System. The l ...
(KL Monorail) line located in
Kuala Lumpur and opened alongside the rest of the line and other adjoining monorail stations on August 31, 2003.
Situated at the south side of the ''
Jalan Tun Sambanthan 4''-''
Jalan Tebing'' (
Malay
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; English: Tun Sambanthan Road 4-
River Bank
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Road) intersection in the
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district of Kuala Lumpur, the station resides at the western bank of the
Klang River (or the left bank of the river), just beside Methodist College Kuala Lumpur (MCKL), and the Malaysian Association of the Blind (MAB) opposite ''Jalan Tun Sambanthan 4''. The station is situated close to a pedestrian bridge that crosses the Klang River, connecting the area to ''
Jalan Syed Putra
Jalan Syed Putra (formerly Lornie Drive), Federal Route 2 is a major highway in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was named after Almarhum Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail of Perlis, the third Yang di-Pertuan Agong, which used ...
'' (Syed Putra Road) that adjoins the
Federal Highway and the
Kuen Cheng High School
Kuen Cheng High School (KCHS) or SM (Persendirian) Kuen Cheng (Chinese: "坤成中学"), formerly known as Kuen Cheng Girls' High School (Chinese: "坤成女子中学"), is an independent semi- boarding secondary Chinese school in Kuala Lumpur, ...
just opposite the river. The station has only one exit which connects to the west side of ''Jalan Tebing''.
The station is named after
V. T. Sambanthan
Tun Thirunyanasambanthan s/o Veerasamy ( ta, திருஞானசம்பந்தன், Tiruñāṉacampantaṉ; 16 June 1919 – 18 May 1979) also known as V.T. Sambanthan, was a Malayan and Malaysian politician who served as Ministe ...
, a notable figure in the
Malaysian Indian Congress
The Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC; ta, மலேசிய இந்திய காங்கிரஸ், Malēciya Intiya Kāṅkiras; formerly known as Malayan Indian Congress) is a Malaysian political party. It is one of the founding membe ...
. ''
Jalan Tun Sambanthan
Jalan Tun Sambanthan ''(formerly Jalan Brickfields)'' is a major road in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was built in 1982 and named after Tun V.T. Sambanthan, a former Minister of Works and Communications and one of the founding fathers of Malaysia ...
'' (Tun Sambanthan Road), a main road in Brickfields, is also named after V. T. Sambanthan and is the location of the preceding
KL Sentral monorail terminus.
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Layout
Exits and Entrances
The station has only one exit.
See also
*
List of rail transit stations in Klang Valley
References
Kuala Lumpur Monorail stations
Railway stations opened in 2003
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