The Kwasa Damansara station is a mass rapid transit (MRT) station that serves the future township of

Kwasa Damansara Kwasa Damansara is a new township located in the Sungai Buloh constituency of Selangor, Malaysia. Located 14 km northwest of Kuala Lumpur's central business district, it borders Kota Damansara to the south and Sungai Buloh to the north. Currently ...

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, which is currently being developed. It is one of the stations on the MRT Kajang Line and

MRT Putrajaya Line The MRT Putrajaya Line is the second Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) line in Klang Valley, Malaysia, and the third fully automated and driverless rail system in region. The line stretches from to Putrajaya and runs through densely populated areas ...

. The ceremony to launch Phase One of the Kajang line by the Prime Minister of Malaysia

Najib Razak Dato' Sri Haji Mohammad Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak ( ms, محمد نجيب بن عبد الرزاق, label= Jawi, script=arab, italic=unset, ; born 23 July 1953) is a Malaysian politician who served as the 6th prime minister of Malaysi ...

was held at this station on 15 December 2016 and the station was officially opened on 16 December 2016. The station later became an interchange station between the MRT Kajang Line and the

which opened to the public on 16 June 2022. Both lines currently terminate at this station.Project information from

Station features

Station location

The station is located within the

development project, one of two stations to serve this future township. As it is located away from Jalan Sungai Buloh (Malay; English: Sungai Buloh Road), a new access road was built to give access to the station. Although the tracks at the Kwasa Damansara station are elevated, the station building itself is at-grade, the only one of its kind on the MRT Sungai Buloh-Kajang Line, but similar to

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station on the

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. The station has three levels, with the ground floor being the concourse and the two floors above being platform levels. The two elevated platforms are island platforms, enabling this station to have four platforms to enable it to function as the interchange station between the MRT Kajang Line and MRT

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. Platform 1 is dedicated for

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-bound trains of the MRT Kajang Line. This platform is on level 2. On the same level is platform 4, which is used as the terminus of MRT Putrajaya Line. On level 1, platform 2 functions as the terminus for MRT Kajang Line. Platform 3, across from platform 2, is for

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-bound trains for the MRT Putrajaya Line, although trains currently only stop at

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as it is the terminal station for the Phase 1 of MRT Putrajaya Line.

History

At the early stages of the project before the finalisation of station names, the Kwasa Damansara MRT station was referred to by the working name of Kota Damansara MRT Station. The name Kota Damansara caused some confusion as there was another station that would eventually have "Kota Damansara" as its final name, which was

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. This station would eventually be given the name Kwasa Damansara MRT Station.

Station layout

Exits and entrances

The station currently has one entrance - Entrance A - although the design caters to future entrances when the area surrounding the station is developed. The entrance currently leads to the station access road and the park and ride facility.

Putrajaya Line

When Phase One operations for the MRT

began on June 16, 2022, this station became the northern terminus of the line. At the same time, this station replaced

Sungai Buloh station ( Jawi) zh, 双溪毛糯 ta, சுங்கை பூலோ , style = KTM , style2 = Interchange , type = Commuter rail, Intercity rail and Mass rapid transit (MRT) station , image = File:Ducky trainset near Damansara Damai entering Sun ...

as the northern terminus of the MRT Kajang Line. As a result, the

Kampung Selamat station The Kampung Selamat station is a mass rapid transit (MRT) station serving the areas of Kampung Selamat and Kampung Baru Sungai Buloh in Sungai Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia. The station was one of the stations on the MRT Kajang Line and was opened on ...

and Sungai Buloh station which were formerly a part of the MRT Kajang Line were transferred to the MRT Putrajaya Line.

Gallery

File:SBK Line Kwasa Damansara Overall View 1.jpg, View of the front of the station which faces the park and ride facility. File:SBK Line Kwasa Damansara Entrance A 1.jpg, Entrance A of the station. File:Kwasa Damansara MRT Station (PY01-KG04) Upper Platform (220724) 2.jpg, SBK04 Kwasa Damansara station island platform. File:Kwasa Damansara MRT Platform Sign at Platform 3 (220625).jpg, Kwasa Damansara level & platform signage. Showing platform 4 dedicated for

File:Kwasa Damansara MRT Station (PY01-KG04) Lower Platform (220724) 3.jpg, The island on level 1 of Kwasa Damansara MRT station File:Kwasa Damansara MRT Station (PY01-KG04) Lower Platform (220724) 7.jpg, MRT PY line platform 3 at Kwasa Damansara File:MRT SBK Kwasa Damansara platform.jpg, Platform 1 on level 2. Kwasa Damansara MRT Station Putrajaya Line train entering (220714).jpg, The Putrajaya Line train is entering the Kwasa Damansara station

References

External links

Kwasa Damansara MRT station - MRT Website

Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit
{{Klang Valley train stations, state=collapsed Rapid transit stations in Selangor Sungai Buloh-Kajang Line Railway stations opened in 2016